What's the difference between person and symptom?

Person


Definition:

  • (n.) A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.
  • (n.) The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
  • (n.) A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
  • (n.) A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
  • (n.) A parson; the parish priest.
  • (n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
  • (n.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.
  • (n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
  • (v. t.) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
  • (2) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
  • (3) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
  • (4) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
  • (5) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
  • (6) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
  • (7) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
  • (8) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
  • (9) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
  • (10) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
  • (11) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
  • (12) Caries-related bacteriological and biochemical factors were studied in 12 persons with low and 11 persons with normal salivary-secretion rates before and after a four-week period of frequent mouthrinses with 10% sorbitol solution (adaptation period).
  • (13) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
  • (14) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
  • (15) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
  • (16) An additional 1.3% of the persons studied needed this operation, but were unfit for surgery.
  • (17) The results indicated that 48% of the sample either regularly checked their own skin or had it checked by another person (such as a spouse), and 17% had been screened by a general practitioner in the preceding 12 months.
  • (18) Of 573 tests in 127 persons, a positive response occurred in 68 tests of 51 patients.
  • (19) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.
  • (20) Fifteen patients of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) were detected out of 2500 persons of Maheshwari community surveyed.

Symptom


Definition:

  • (n.) Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited.
  • (n.) A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
  • (2) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
  • (3) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
  • (4) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
  • (5) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
  • (6) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
  • (7) Survival was independent of the type of clinical presentation and protocol employed but was correlated with the stage (P less than 0.0005), symptoms (P less than 0.025), bulky disease (P less than 0.025) and bone marrow involvement (P less than 0.025).
  • (8) This investigation is thus indicated in patients with neurological symptoms.
  • (9) Symptoms, particularly colicky abdominal pain, improved during the period of chelation therapy.
  • (10) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
  • (11) These results show that lipo-PGI2 at a very low dose would be beneficial as a treatment for relieving the clinical symptoms of chronic cerebral infarction and that lipid microspheres are a useful drug carrier for PGI2 analogue therapy.
  • (12) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
  • (13) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
  • (14) Akinetic symptoms were improved in 7 of 10 patients.
  • (15) Definite tumor regression, improvement of some clinical symptoms, and continuous remission over 6 mo or more were observed in six, nine, and three patients, respectively.
  • (16) None of the children in the study showed clinical symptoms of acquired subglottic stenosis before discharge from hospital, and none has been readmitted for this condition subsequently.
  • (17) There is some correlation between PI values and clinical symptoms, but it is not as well defined as that between SI values and clinical symptoms.
  • (18) It has also been reported in a severe form with fever and systemic symptoms both in children and adults.
  • (19) The quantity of social ties, the quality of relationships as modified by type of intimate, and the baseline level of symptoms measured five years earlier were significant predictors of psychosomatic symptoms among this sample of women.
  • (20) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).