(a.) Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nevertheless an assidous follow-up will be wise in order to stablish the pronostic in view of the outbreacks of the illness.
Pathognomonic
Definition:
(a.) Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom.
Example Sentences:
(1) Focal biliary cirrhosis is the pathognomonic hepatic lesion and is present in 25-30% of CF patients, most of whom are asymptomatic.
(2) We have not discovered any specific EUS finding(s) that are pathognomonic for pancreatic cancer or chronic pancreatitis.
(3) In certain diseases, the morphologic alterations are characteristic and pathognomonic.
(4) More than a decade of study of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) has gradually shown a pathognomonic pattern of abnormalities, probably reflecting spreading cortical depression.
(5) The changes are distinctive and pathognomonic, but the effects of therapy (vitamin D) have not yet been ascertained.
(6) Because of the nonspecific nature of symptoms produced and absence of pathognomonic findings by physical examination or by routine laboratory testing, its recognition is difficult and its true incidence is unknown.
(7) Although there are no pathognomonic symptoms, signs, or radiological appearances of intracranial tuberculomas, a high index of suspicion should always be entertained during the investigation of non-European immigrants.
(8) Periodic acid-Schiff-positive, diastase resistant, intracytoplasmic crystals, pathognomonic for alveolar soft-part sarcoma, were present.
(9) The retinal lesions observed in primary hyperoxaluria appear to be pathognomonic for hyperoxalaemia.
(10) Importantly, although not pathognomonic, the high-resolution CT finding of centrilobular, peribronchiolar, indistinct nodules should suggest the diagnosis of chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
(11) Although these splenic features are not pathognomonic for abscesses, they can be correlated with other incidental abdominal sonographic findings and the presenting clinical symptoms, can direct percutaneous needle punctures and can enable a prompt diagnosis.
(12) However, whether these changes are specific or pathognomonic to any disease(s) remains to be solved.
(13) A knowledge of the pathognomonic features may lead to early detection and treatment.
(14) Angiomyolipomas produce pathognomonic appearances on modern imaging methods and a tissue diagnosis is no longer required particularly when multiple tubers can be confidently diagnosed and if a CT brain scan shows periventricular calcifications.
(15) In Hellmer's original article and all cases subsequently reported, this appearance was described as being pathognomonic of intraperitoneal fluid.
(16) The fine morphology of hematoxylin bodies--structures which, by light microscopy, are considered to be pathognomonic for systemic lupus erythematosus--is described in renal glomeruli.
(17) Thus pancreatic calcifications, which are virtually pathognomonic for chronic pancreatitis, were found exclusively in the group with chronic nephropathy due to analgesic abuse.
(18) Gas patterns in the portal and umbilical vessels are unique and pathognomonic.
(19) Pathognomonic signs were pain behind the lateral femoral condyle on palpation and compression of the fabella and also on passive extension of the knee.
(20) These findings may be considered pathognomonic for enchondromatosis (Ollier's disease).