(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).
Symptomatology
Definition:
(n.) The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is possible that the marked elevations in obsessive-compulsive symptomatology and in interpersonal sensitivity may reflect in part a sensitization to excessive performance demands.
(2) Structural changes in lymph nodes are analysed in the elaboration of basic terms for lymphographic symptomatology.
(3) Ketazolam was found to be significantly better than placebo in alleviating anxiety and its concomitant symptomatology as measured by the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, three Physician's Global Impressions, two Patient's Global Impressions, and three Target Symptoms.
(4) The occurrence of paresis or paralysis in ischemic processes strictly situated in the thalamus, however, is discussed: the deficit may be limited to parts of limbs; most often, it is not associated with pyramidal symptomatology; recovery is observed in the hand before the inferior limb.
(5) Computed tomographic (CT) findings in 14 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus are correlated with clinical symptomatology.
(6) Proper approach to the genito-urinary tract abnormalities symptomatology accompanied with proper diagnosis and management may significantly lower the incidence of severe renal failure.
(7) On account of symptomatological and pathogenetical similarities with the dystrophy of Sudeck and the causalgic state, it appears that the Q.S.
(8) From our data on symptomatology, family history and course of 538 such patients, several findings emerge of cardinal relevance to genetic studies.
(9) Within the depressed group ear asymmetry varied according to symptomatology; withdrawal-retardation was associated with a lack of asymmetry and anxiety with a normal right ear advantage.
(10) Comments on the symptomatology, exploratory means and differential diagnosis with other sinusal or orbital conditions.
(11) The etiopathogenesis, symptomatology and treatment were described.
(12) Compared with 97 Libyan schizophrenics who exhibited poor symptomatology, 100 Maltese cases were similar to those of other European countries.
(13) He uses as a basis the CDC classification of HIV infections and explains on different models of clinical situations mechanisms which lead to haematological, neurological, immunological, pneumological, gastroenterological, oncological and rheumatological symptomatology.
(14) There was not any single item or any cluster of depressive symptomatology consistently related to AbDST among all diagnostic categories.
(15) The presence of urinary-bladder-stones was verified cystoscopically and the clinical symptomatology ceased promptly after removal of the concrements.
(16) It is also useful to epidemiologists who, for example, may be interested in estimating the prevalence of depression; it is important to know that they must count some cases of CBS's along with cases of depression with a more typically Western symptomatology.
(17) In all cases CT, both in the immediate post-traumatic phase and later on, allowed both an early diagnosis and the follow-up of hemorrhagic lesions and late complications, even in absence of significant neurologic symptomatology; medical replacement treatment and neurosurgery, when needed, allowed a positive resolution of all cases.
(18) It is argued that for Resistance veterans only the intrusive reminiscences of the stressful events discriminate this constellation of symptoms from subjects with an anxious-depressive symptomatology.
(19) No relation was found between new symptomatology and the type of hysterectomy, oophorectomy, or the administration of perioperative antibiotics.
(20) Distinguishing symptomatology, anamnesis, family history, therapeutics, as well as prognosis, are discussed.