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| x Malaise | General feeling of being unwell |
Malaise (IPA /mə'leɪz/, mal-aze) is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, an "out of sorts" feeling, often the first indication of an infection or other disease. Malaise is often defined in medicinal research as a "general feeling of being...
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| x Anorexia | Decreased appetite |
Anorexia (deriving from the Greek "α(ν)-" (a(n)-, a prefix that denotes absence) + "όρεξη" (orexe) = appetite) is the decreased sensation of appetite. While the term in non-scientific publications is often used interchangeably with anorexia nervosa,...
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| x Dysuria | Painful urination |
In medicine, specifically urology, dysuria refers to painful urination.
Difficult urination is also sometimes described as dysuria.
It is one of a constellation of irritative bladder symptoms, which includes urinary frequency and haematuria.
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| x Polyphagia | Excessive Hunger |
Polyphagia means "eating too much." It derives from the Greek words πολύ (poli) which means "very much", and φαΐ (fai) which means "food".
In medicine, polyphagia (sometimes known as hyperphagia) is a medical sign meaning excessive hunger and...
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Swelling |
Edema (American English) or oedema (British English; both words from the Greek οἴδημα), formerly known as dropsy or hydropsy, is an abnormal accumulation of fluid beneath the skin, or in one or more cavities of the body. Generally, the amount of...
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| x Tachypnea | Rapid breathing |
Tachypnea (or "tachypnoea") (Greek: "rapid breathing") is characterized by rapid breathing.
It is not identical with hyperventilation - tachypnea may be necessary for a sufficient gas-exchange of the body, for example after exercise, in which case...
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Rapid Heart Beat |
Tachycardia comes from the Greek words tachys (rapid or accelerated) and kardia (of the heart). Tachycardia typically refers to a heart rate that exceeds the normal range for a resting heartrate (heartrate in an inactive or sleeping individual). In...
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| x Dyspnea | Shortness of breath |
Dyspnea or dyspnoea (pronounced disp-nee-ah, IPA /dɪsp'niə/), from Latin dyspnoea, from Greek dyspnoia from dyspnoos, shortness of breath) or shortness of breath (SOB) is a debilitating symptom that is the experience of unpleasant or uncomfortable...
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| x Koilonychia | spoon-shaped nails |
Koilonychia (also known as spoon nails) is a nail disease that can be a sign of hypochromic anemia, especially iron-deficiency anemia. Koilonychia literally means "spoon nails." It refers to abnormally thin nails (usually of the hand) which have...
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| x Lumbar puncture |
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Spinal tap |
In medicine, a lumbar puncture (colloquially known as a spinal tap) is a diagnostic and at times therapeutic procedure that is performed in order to collect a sample of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for biochemical, microbiological, and cytological...
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Canker sore |
An aphthous ulcer, also known as a canker sore, is a type of oral ulcer, which presents as a painful open sore inside the mouth or upper throat (including the uvula) caused by a break in the mucous membrane. The condition is also known as aphthous...
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| x Tinea pedis |
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Athlete's foot |
Athlete's foot (tinea pedis) is a fungal infection of the skin that causes scaling, flaking, and itch of affected areas. It is typically transmitted in moist areas where people walk barefoot, such as showers or bathhouses. Although the condition...
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| x Pili incarnati |
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Ingrown hair |
Ingrown hair is a condition where the hair curls back or grows sideways into the skin. The ingrown hair condition is seen primarily among people having curly hairs. It may or may not be accompanied by an infection of the hair follicle (folliculitis)...
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| x Onychocryptosis |
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Ingrown nail |
Onychocryptosis (also known as an "Ingrown nail," or "Unguis incarnatus") is a common form of nail disease. It is an often painful condition in which the nail grows so that it cuts into one or both sides of the nail bed. While ingrown nails can...
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| x Onychomycosis |
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Nail Fungus |
Onychomycosis means fungal infection of the nail. It is the most common disease of the nails and constitutes about a half of all nail abnormalities.
This condition may affect toenails or fingernails, but toenail infections are particularly common....
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Ringworm |
Ringworm is a fungal infection of the skin in humans and domestic animals such as sheep and cattle. Fungi are organisms that survive by eating plant or animal material. Those that cause parasitic infection (dermatophytes) feed on keratin, the...
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| x Eructation | burping |
Belching, also known as burping, ructus, or eructation, involves the release of gas from the digestive tract (mainly esophagus and stomach) through the mouth. It is usually accompanied with a typical sound and, at times, an odor.
Belching is...
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| x Pyrexia |
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Fever |
Fever (also known as pyrexia, from the Greek pyretos meaning fire, or a febrile response, from the Latin word febris, meaning fever, and archaically known as ague) is a frequent medical sign that describes an increase in internal body temperature to...
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| x Pectus excavatum |
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Congenital funnel chest |
Pectus excavatum (a Latin term meaning hollowed chest) is the most common congenital deformity of the anterior wall of the chest, in which several ribs and the sternum grow abnormally. This produces a caved-in or sunken appearance of the chest. It...
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Bleeding |
Bleeding, technically known as hemorrhaging or haemorrhaging (see American and British spelling differences) is the loss of blood or blood escape from the circulatory system. Bleeding can occur internally, where blood leaks from blood vessels inside...
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| x Lumbago | Low Back Pain |
Low back pain (sometimes referred to as lumbago) is a common symptom of musculoskeletal disorders or of disorders involving the lumbar vertebrae and related soft tissue structures such as muscles, ligaments, nerves and intervertebral discs. It can...
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| x Pruritus |
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Itch |
An intense itching sensation.
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| x Acrochordon |
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Skin tag |
An acrochordon (plural acrochorda, and also known as a cutaneous skin tag, skin tag, fibroepithelial polyp, cutaneous papilloma, fibroma molluscum, fibroma pendulum, papilloma colli, , or soft fibroma) is a small benign tumor that forms primarily in...
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| x Inguinodynia | Inguinal pain |
In medicine, inguinodynia is a pain in the groin (from the Latin inguinal which is the groin). It appears after a hernia operation together with dumpness.
Undiagnosed Groin Pain
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Boil |
Boil (or furuncle) is a skin disease caused by the infection of hair follicles, resulting in the localized accumulation of pus and dead tissue. Individual boils can cluster together and form an interconnected network of boils called carbuncles....
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| x Facial Paresis | Facial weakness |
Facial droop is a symptom for some diseases.
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| x Eyelid pruritus | Itchy eyelids |
Itchy eyelids is a symptom for some diseases.
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| x Syncope |
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Fainting |
Syncope (pronounced /ˈsɪŋkəpi/) is the medical term for fainting, a sudden, usually temporary, loss of consciousness generally caused by insufficient oxygen in the brain either through cerebral hypoxia or through hypotension, but possibly for other...
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