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symptom

simp tuhm

  • n  (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease
  • n  anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence

  • If a substance produces certain debilitating symptoms in a healthy person, he reasoned, then a small dose could be used to treat the same symptoms in an ill patient.
  • Soldiers who had survived blasts, but had no head injury whatever, came to the hospital complaining of typical post-concussive symptoms, including dizziness, difficulty in decision .
  • Finally his lips begin to twitch violently (the most common symptom); he goes into convulsions and falls unconscious.
News & Articles

  • Chronic Ailment
    This time, treating Highmark and UPMC's cranial swelling may be tougher by Chris Potter After a year-long remission, Western Pennsylvania is due for a relapse of Health Care Derangement Syndrome, thanks to Highmark's acquisition of the Western Pennsylvania Allegheny Health System (WPAHS). The state's Insurance Department approved that deal this spring, and one symptom — nausea-inducing ...
    July 3, 2013 - Pittsburgh City Paper
  • Guest: Seattle’s taxi rules are broken
    The proliferation of services such as UberX, Sidecar and Lyft are the symptom of a very broken taxi-regulatory system, writes guest columnist Samatar Guled.
    July 3, 2013 - Seattle Times
  • Are You A Cyberchondriac?
    A headache, a sore throat, maybe even a fever are pretty common. Before calling the doctor many of us turn to the internet for our own symptom shopping, trying to figure out what's wrong.
    July 3, 2013 - KWTV News9
Quotes

  • Barack Obama in TIME
    In the end, this is a symptom of a larger problem - a bubble and bust economy that valued reckless speculation over responsibility and hard work,President Obama said in a statement. "That is what we must ultimately repair to build a...
  • John McCain in MiamiHerald.com
    That has to end, McCain said, because "the constant partisan rancor that stops us from solving these problems isn't a cause, it's a symptom."
  • Robert Gates in GovExec.com
    The Taiwan fiasco, which was only discovered in March, was merely a "symptom of a degradation of the authority, standards of excellence and technical competence" of the country's intercontinental ballistic missile inventory, Gates said during a...

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