What's the difference between semiotic and symptom?

Semiotic


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to signs or indications; pertaining to the language of signs, or to language generally as indicating thought.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the signs or symptoms of diseases.
  • (a.) Same as Semeiotic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It examines from a semiotic perspective the double transformations of spirit and host which in the beliefs and practices of the People of the Air constitute "therapy."
  • (2) Biology thus is, in itself and in all its aspects, natural semiotics with a pronounced proximity to deterministic chaos.
  • (3) The endoscopic anatomy of the subdural space structure and endoscopic semiotics of intracranial lesions are presented.
  • (4) I want the whole run as raw material for my up-coming PhD on the semiotics of 20th-century Britishness at the University of Uppsala.
  • (5) A semiotic conceptualization of pain in the chronic pain syndrome is proposed.
  • (6) Special attention is paid to psychopathology as well as to psychodynamic and semiotic aspects of the delusional illness.
  • (7) A phonocardiographic semiotics of the complications is presented.
  • (8) The present empirical study of the semiotic aspects of suitability for psychotherapy grew out of this early experience.
  • (9) The results of this and previous studies are interpreted within a semiotic theory of communication.
  • (10) This paper reports phenomenological and semiotic research on therapeutic rituals in a Muslim shrine, concentrating on three cases studies.
  • (11) Bodily expressions were analyzed according the semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce.
  • (12) Normal tomoechoencephalogramme and ultrasonic semiotics of transverse sections of the brain in different pathology is described with reference to its nature and interrelationships with the meninges and brain matter (tumours, abscesses, emningeal and intracerebral haematomas, hydroma, brain confusion, intracranial foreign bodies).
  • (13) In the neurological examination of the child, there is a growing significance of subclinical semiotics and graphomotor expression.
  • (14) The goal of the present paper is to give a classification of psychosomatic theories on symbolic body functioning by applying two modern semiotic theories (Peirce, de Saussure).
  • (15) In the article is presented the echographic semiotics of the forearm interosseous membrane, based on the results of 10 forearm examinations.
  • (16) Semiotic structures have the form of saying something about something to someone and involve speech act, reference, pragmatics, and interpretation.
  • (17) The semiotics of curry allows for market segmentation and a premium pricing strategy.
  • (18) A comparison of image quality assured by electroroentgeno- and roentgenography did not establish any significant difference in soft tissue tumor semiotics.
  • (19) Echographic semiotics of radiation cystitis was studied in detail versus cystoscopy data.
  • (20) This article shows that since scientific explanation employs a language of its own, its syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic dimensions must therefore be analysed with the help of semiotics.

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).