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( Symptom)
A symptom (from Greek s?µpt?µa, "accident, misfortune, that which befalls"[1], from s?µp?pt?, "I befall", from s??- "together, with" + p?pt?, "I fall") is a departure from normal function or feeling which is noticed by a patient, indicating the presence of disease or abnormality. A symptom is subjective,[2] observed by the patient,[3] and not measured.[4] Symptoms may be chronic, relapsing or remitting. They also may progressively worsen or progressively become better (convalescence). Conditions may also be classified as symptomatic (present and demonstrating symptoms) or asymptomatic (present but without symptoms). Asymptomatic conditions exist for years undiagnosed and may only be found upon medical testing (such as high blood pressure). Constitutional or general symptoms are those that are related to the systemic effects of a disease (e.g., fever, malaise, anorexia, weight loss). They affect the entire body rather than a specific organ or location. The terms "chief complaint", "presenting symptom", or "presenting complaint" are used to describe the initial concern which brings a patient to a doctor. The symptom that ultimately leads to a diagnosis is called a "cardinal symptom".
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Memory Loss: Susceptible to Older People with Active Social Life by Chicco Tatoy
Memory loss comes with aging, and this alone can give out devastating effects on the individual, especially those among the older set. In a recent study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, the researchers found evidence that older peopl...
Steps to Beating the Damage Caused By Diabetes by Thomas Nelson
Steps to Beating the Damage Caused by Diabetes Often, when I speak to people about their diabetes, they tell me how their doctor spoke of all of the horrors that diabetes would bring as it progressed. Beating diabetes was not an option; especially b...
How I Reversed My Type Two Diabetes by Thomas Nelson
How I Reversed My Type Two Diabetes
I made a shocking discovery a year ago that has changed, and possibly saved my life. I was diagnosed with Type Two Diabetes over fifteen years ago. Everything that the doctors have advised have been done,...
How Steaming Camel Dung Contributed to Reversing the Symptoms of Diabetes by Thomas Nelson
How Steamy Camel Dung Contributed to Reversing the Symptoms of Diabetes Early in the 1940's, when German armies occupied areas of North Africa, Dysentery threatened to defeat the mighty Army. Thousands of soldiers were dying in the fields, victims ...
What Diabetics Need to Know About Their Doctor by Thomas Nelson
What Diabetics Need to Know About Their Doctor
All diabetics stand helplessly by, watching their condition progress. The progression is slow, at times almost unnoticed. But, never-the-less, it is progressing, very quietly, day-by-day. But,...
Why Diabetics Crave Sweets by Thomas Nelson
Why Diabetics Crave Sweets No matter where you go, someone is always offering you food items that you should not eat if you are a diabetic. Yet, we all (diabetics) find it very difficult to turn it down. We use the excuse that we do not want to off...
Stress Management Is An Important Part Of A Healthy Lifestyle by Paul Rodgers
Stress is your response to any physical, emotional or intellectual demands. Stress is a major contributing factor either directly or indirectly, to coronary artery disease, cancer, respiratory disorders, accidental injuries, cirrhosis of the liver an...
Male Yeast Infection- Are You The Victim Or The Villain Of This Disease by Gordon Brownlie
Male yeast infection can occur in men of all ages and is widely misunderstood and a much overlooked disease today. Male yeast infection is however more common in male adults than in children, and would you believe in uncircumcised males rather than c...
How to Feel Young and Full of Energy While You Getting Older With GHR1000 HGH Releaser by Chaves Angles
As we getting older, and as a matter of facts all of us are getting older and can not turn back the time, we are experiencing what so called aging symptoms or signs of aging. And truly these symptoms or signs do not bring any good to us. Some of thes...
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