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Showing symptoms.

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Relating to, based on, or constituting a symptom.

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The city's problems are symptomatic of the crisis that is spreading throughout the country.

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Relating to symptomatics

The cure which is sought for may either be symptomatic or radical.

This frame of mind, however, is mainly symptomatic of the lower levels of cult.

Nine out of 10 patients will have no symptomatic recurrence over six months or more.

These alcohol rehab programs are for habituated and hard-core alcohol abusers, usually combining symptomatic treatment with constant supervision and medications.

It is often symptomatic of authorities failing to take a long term view.

In later times the conception of conscience as an inward monitor is symptomatic of the same movement of thought.

Alternative medicine was symptomatic of what happened in many areas of society at the same moment.

All patients with a symptomatic PLG are offered a laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Soaking the feet in cold water (not ice cold) for around 15 minutes can bring symptomatic temporary relief.

A total of 269 women undergoing conservative surgery for mild to severe symptomatic endometriosis.

Within 20 years of myomectomy, about 1 in 4 women will undergo hysterectomy most often for recurrent symptomatic fibroids.

The routine elective removal of the gallbladder is a curative treatment, and for most patients with symptomatic gallstones remains the treatment of choice.

This is symptomatic for a merely historic reading of 1 John.

Subjects were reviewed weekly to ensure an increase in ultrafiltrate volume and to avoid side effects such as symptomatic hypotension.

Do elderly patients with symptomatic and reproducible orthostatic hypotension demonstrate reduced health status and quality of life when compared with healthy controls?

Sap of symptomatic plants was used for mechanical inoculation of test plants.

As all patients with symptomatic myeloma are now treated with long-term bisphosphonates, recurrent hypercalcaemia is not common unless there is disease progression.

Prolonged use of zidovudine has been associated with symptomatic myopathy.

Exclusions were sensible, and included more than 15 headache days a month, and symptomatic medication overuse.

For the symptomatic strong, the extent of muscle overuse ranged from two to three muscles.

While the scarred prepuce invariably responds best to formal cicumcision a more conservative approach is recommended in those symptomatic patients with non-retractile foreskins.

The products are available in hospital packs, licensed for symptomatic relief of cold sores.

These agents appear able to induce a sustained biochemical remission of disease with associated symptomatic improvement.

The 'close ' stranger The appearance of the 'close ' stranger is symptomatic for the three national cinematographies.

Strong hybridisation signals were observed for all symptomatic samples, when blots were washed at medium to high stringency.

These attitudes are perhaps symptomatic of today's ' me ' society.

This is all symptomatic of a broader, concerted assault on our freedoms.

Half of these people are still symptomatic at 18 months.

However, I still had no idea whether the magnet treatment to my own arm was only symptomatic or could eventually promote complete healing.

However, a small percentage of patients remain symptomatic despite optimal medical therapy.

This somehow seems symptomatic of the critical esteem in which the post-mortem Kubrick is held.

They are, however, symptomatic of a more general malaise.

This is still fairly unusual for an educational site of this type, but is perhaps symptomatic of the current trend in Internet funding.

Surveys continue to show the same common causes of failure most of which are symptomatic of a lack of good project management.

Does he agree that the issue is symptomatic of a failure properly to examine the potential environmental impact of green taxes across the board?

The problems faced by these families are symptomatic of a much wider problem.

Again, this is symptomatic of a top-down approach.

These attitudes are perhaps symptomatic of today 's ' me ' society.

Relatively few patients in Scotland had CEA for asymptomatic carotid stenosis or for mild or moderate symptomatic stenoses.

These provide symptomatic relief for people in the mild to moderate stages of the disease.

Geometry problems, white streaks and washed-out images are symptomatic of this.

Before the virus gets to the brain, the cat is generally not symptomatic and is not able to pass rabies on to other organisms.

Sudden onset hair loss is usually symptomatic of a health problem, so I really don't think it has anything directly to do with old age.

According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, treatment for the sleep disorder is "symptomatic in nature."

Analgesics provide symptomatic relief but have no effect on causation, although clearly the NSAIDs, by virtue of their dual activities as pain relievers and anti-inflammatories, may be beneficial in both regards.

The five groups of disease-causing organisms whose antibodies are measured by the TORCH test are grouped together because they can cause a cluster of symptomatic birth defects in newborns.

The mortality rate for these symptomatic newborns is 20 to 30 percent.

There is no specific treatment for polio except symptomatic.

Lastly, about 5 percent of febrile seizures are diagnosed as symptomatic, in cases in which the child has a history or evidence of neurological abnormality.

When hypotonia is caused by an underlying condition, that condition is treated first, followed by symptomatic and supportive therapy for the hypotonia.