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A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.

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A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.

She's started having symptoms that the doctors can't figure out what's wrong.

In thirty-six hours no symptoms are left.

Have you experienced any of the symptoms Dr. Mallard described?

One day I asked her if she felt any symptoms of pregnancy.

What does he say my symptoms are from?

The dangerous principle is a narcotic, and the symptoms are usually great nausea, drowsiness, stupor and pains in the joints.

Can you tell me what other symptoms I might have?

Once again she visited the library, this time to research the symptoms of pregnancy.

In the fourth place, these views of the "natural history of disease" (in modern language) led to habits of minute observation and accurate interpretation of symptoms, in which the Hippocratic school was unrivalled in antiquity, and has been the model for all succeeding ages, so that even in these days, with our enormous advances in knowledge, the true method of clinical medicine may be said to be the method of Hippocrates.

In toxic doses podophyllin causes intense enteritis, with all its characteristic symptoms, and severe depression, which may end in death.

Provided the kidneys be healthy, the symptoms may be ignored.

In the case of pyloric obstruction a permanent opening may be established between the stomach and a neighbouring piece of intestine, so that the food may find its way along the alimentary canal greatly to the relief of the symptoms of gastric dilatation.

She saw with sorrow, and sometimes with exasperation, symptoms of a growing attachment between her son and the portionless Sonya.

He was now over fifty and his sight showed serious symptoms of enfeeblement.

Small leeches taken into the mouth with drinking-water may give rise to serious symptoms by attaching themselves to the fauces and neighbouring parts and thence sucking blood.

After graduating honourably in 1814 he entered his father's office as a student of law; but in January 1815 the uninjured eye showed dangerous symptoms of inflammation.

The symptoms of cancer of the stomach are apt to be indefinite (for many weeks or months).

In plants, however, the symptoms of disease are apt to exhibit themselves in a very general manner.

The symptoms of Natasha's illness were that she ate little, slept little, coughed, and was always low-spirited.

The Sacerdotale indicates as one of the symptoms of possession the ability of the possessed to talk other tongues than his own.

We may often distinguish between primary symptoms and secondary or subordinate symptoms, but for the purposes of classification in an article of this scope we shall only attempt to group the various cases under the more obvious signs of disease exhibited.

NecrosisA number of diseases the obvious symptoms of which are the local drying up and death of tissues, in many cases with secondary results on organs or parts of organs, may be brought together under this heading.

Other symptoms of undue absorption are vertigo, deafness, sounds in the ears, stupefaction, a subnormal temperature, nausea, vomiting and a weak pulse (Sir Thomas Fraser).

So threatening were the symptoms that the royalists at Paris and the plenipotentiaries at Vienna talked of deporting him to the Azores, while others more than hinted at assassination.

The headache, deafness, ringing in the ears and even delirium of salicylism, are practically identical with the symptoms of cinchonism.

As in the case of quinine, the administration of small doses of hydrobromic acid often relieve the milder symptoms.

Galen showed extreme ingenuity in explaining all symptoms and all diseases on his system.

Many of the symptoms of diseases were caused by the passions and perturbations of the archeus, and medicines acted by modifying the ideas of the same archeus.

The symptoms of disease were explained as efforts of the soul to rid itself from morbid influences, the soul acting reasonably with respect to the end of self-preservation.

Comment Men with more severe symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia had poorer health status.

The symptoms of atypical depression overlap with those associated with reactive hypoglycemia.

Symptoms that may indicate the diagnosis include unexplained severe pain that increases rapidly over time associated with systemic toxicity including hypotension.

Clients & Therapists Clients and therapists start by translating the unconscious messages that trigger the hypothalamus to produce the symptoms of illness.

Symptoms were not accompanied by icterus (Quint 1933 ). Hypericum canariense L. Rabanal et al.

In addition, there are no blatant symptoms of the disease, so doctors cannot properly diagnose the illness until it's significantly advanced.

Could a hormonal imbalance be to blame for your symptoms?

One of the serotonergic receptors implicated in mediating certain symptoms of depression such as mood and eating abnormalities, is the 5-HT 2C receptor.

Subjects were excluded if they reported having suffered symptoms of a respiratory tract infection in the prior 8 weeks.

Many people with asthma use an inhaler each day to keep symptoms away.

A doctor may prescribe a high dose of a preventer inhaler at first, to quickly " get on top of symptoms " .

Orthotics These are custom made insoles that aim to reduce the symptoms resulting from biomechanical problems.

The symptoms of system incompatibility with audio hardware are often intermittent clicks or drop-outs.

The majority of men with the disease will have no symptoms; the others will have a mild irritation.

Symptoms could include eye, nose and throat irritation, sneezing, coughing, hives or asthma attack.

Acute irritant symptoms from the inhalation of ETS are common, the most frequent being eye irritation.

Next would come all the various syndromes, which are sets of clinically recognizable symptoms that occur together without a known cause.

White or grey spots may be due to Peronospora, Erysiphe, Cystopus, Entyloma and other Fungi, the mycelium of which will be detected in the discoloured area; or they may be scale insects, or the results of punctures by Red-spider, &c. Yellow spots, and especially bright orange spots, commonly indicate Rust Fungi or other Uredineae; but Phyllosticta, Exoascus, Clasterosporium, Synchytrium, &c., also induce similar symptoms. Certain Aphides, Red-spider, Phylloxera and other insects also betray their presence by such spots.

In a series of letters, De sedibus et causis morborum per anatomen indagatis, published when he was in his eightieth year, he describes the appearances met with at the post mortem examination as well as the symptoms during life in a number of cases of various diseases.

Further, he had the discernment to see that certain symptoms - such as convulsions and delirium, which were then commonly held always to indicate inflammation - were often really signs of weakness.

He professed to base medicine entirely on a knowledge of symptoms, regarding all investigation of the causes of symptoms as useless.