What's the difference between rash and symptom?

Rash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.
  • (v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
  • (n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
  • (n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
  • (superl.) Sudden in action; quick; hasty.
  • (superl.) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
  • (superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.
  • (superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
  • (superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
  • (v. t.) To prepare with haste.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
  • (2) Two young patients presented with generalised lymphadenopathy, otorrhoea, otitis, and rash.
  • (3) --The frequency of common clinical manifestations (eg, headache, fever, and rash) and laboratory findings (eg, leukocyte and platelet counts and serum chemistry abnormalities) of patients with infectious diseases was tabulated.
  • (4) The cause of death was thought to be postoperative Graft Versus Host Disease with skin rash and pancytopenia.
  • (5) Adverse reactions associated with ticlopidine included neutropenia (severe in one patient) with no clinical complications, diarrhea, or rash.
  • (6) The presence of an erythematous skin rash and hemorrhagic complications in acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) suggest that the vasculature may be involved in the immunopathologic process.
  • (7) Hypersensitivity reactions, most commonly skin rashes or pruritus, affect about 1% of patients.
  • (8) The adverse effects were negligible--one patient had light urticarial rash and pruritus.
  • (9) In vitro invasion and in vivo metastasis assays were performed with a panel of MCF-7 cells transfected with isogenic constructs of mutated rasH genes.
  • (10) We describe a man who presented with Reiter's syndrome and a new prominent malar rash.
  • (11) A 71-year-old female showed a rash over the S2-4 dermatomes on the right side.
  • (12) Somebody rashly asked if he listened to the recently reprieved 6 Music – no – or even Radio 1, which he only caught, he said, when turning the dial between Radios 3 and 4.
  • (13) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
  • (14) Extracardiac adverse effects of quinidine include potentially intolerable gastrointestinal effects and hypersensitivity reactions such as fever, rash, blood dyscrasias and hepatitis.
  • (15) The protective effects of FK565 against systemic infections with herpes simplex virus (HSV) and murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV), respiratory tract infection with influenza virus and zosteriform rash with HSV investigated in mice.
  • (16) These included petechial rash, hypertrichosis, acute renal failure, fluid retention and cardiac failure.
  • (17) These results suggest a frequent infection with HHV-6 only a few weeks after BMT and a close association between the infection with the virus and the development of skin rashes.
  • (18) Of these five, one came from a 'normal' control who had a positive anti-nuclear antibody (ANA), facial rash and diabetes, two were from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and two were from patients with mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD).
  • (19) The drug was withdrawn in 6 patients--lack of response in one, thrombocytopenia in one, urticaria in one, rash in one, and granulocytopenia in 2.
  • (20) Supplementation with zinc sulfate 220 mg per day via nasogastric tube resulted in disappearance of the rash with return of serum zinc to normal levels.

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).