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A symptom, in this context, can be either a sensation or change in health function experienced by a patient or a physical condition...
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| x Coma | Cerebral edema |
In medicine, a coma (from the Greek κῶμα koma, meaning deep sleep) is a profound state of unconsciousness. A comatose person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to pain or light, does not have sleep-wake cycles, and does not take voluntary...
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Bradycardia (Greek βραδυκαρδία, bradykardía, "heart slowness"), as applied to adult medicine, is defined as a resting heart rate of under 60 beats per minute, though it is seldom symptomatic until the rate drops below 50 beat/min.
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| x Flatulence |
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Baked beans |
Flatulence is the expulsion through the rectum of a mixture of gases that are byproducts of the digestion process of mammals and other animals. The mixture of gases is known as flatus, (informally) fart, or simply gas, and is expelled from the...
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| x Seizure |
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Brain tumor |
An epileptic seizure is a transient symptom of excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. It can manifest as an alteration in mental state, tonic or clonic movements, convulsions, and various other psychic symptoms (such as déjà vu or...
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| x Tremor | Parkinson's disease | Caffeine |
A tremor is an unintentional, somewhat rhythmic, muscle movement involving to-and-fro movements (oscillations) of one or more body parts. It is the most common of all involuntary movements and can affect the hands, arms, head, face, vocal cords,...
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| x Anorexia | Bladder cancer |
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 Fever |
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Sepsis | Meningococcal Vaccine |
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 Albuminuria |
Albuminuria is a pathological condition where albumin is present in the urine. It is a type of proteinuria.
The amount of protein being lost in the urine can be quantified by collecting the urine for 24 hours, measuring a sample of the pooled urine,...
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| x Nausea | Myocardial infarction | Teriparatide |
Nausea (Latin: Nausea, from Greek: Ναυτεία, "sea-sickness", also called wamble) is the sensation of unease and discomfort in the stomach with an urge to vomit.
Nausea is also an adverse effect of many drugs, opiates in particular, and may also be a...
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| x Fainting |
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Left Bundle Branch Block |
Fainting, frequently called syncope (pronounced /ˈsɪŋkəpi/) in a medical context, is a sudden, and generally momentary, loss of consciousness, or blacking out caused by the Central Ischaemic Response, because of a lack of sufficient blood and oxygen...
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| x Headache |
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Cerebral edema | Teriparatide |
A condition which is characterized by severe pain in the head.
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| x Edema |
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Bright's disease |
Edema (American English) or Oedema (British English; both words from the Greek οίδημα), 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 Anosmia |
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Anosmia (ænˈɒz.mi.ə) is a lack of functioning olfaction, or in other words, an inability to perceive smells. It can be either temporary or permanent. A related term, hyposmia, refers to decreased ability to smell, while hyperosmia refers to an...
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| x Chronic pain | Dermatomytosis |
Chronic pain is defined as pain that persists longer than the temporal course of natural healing, associated with a particular type of injury or disease process.
The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant...
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| x Vomiting |
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Myocardial infarction | Teriparatide |
Vomiting (known medically as emesis and informally as throwing up and a number of other terms) is the forceful expulsion of the contents of one's stomach through the mouth and sometimes the nose. Undesired vomiting may result from many causes,...
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| x Proteinuria |
Proteinuria (/prəʊtiː'n(j)ʊəriə/, from protein and urine) means the presence of an excess of serum proteins in the urine. The protein in the urine often causes the urine to become foamy, although foamy urine may also be caused by bilirubin in the...
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| x Febrile seizure |
A febrile seizure', also known as a fever fit or febrile convulsion is a convulsion triggered by a rise in body temperature. They most commonly occur in children between the ages of 6 months and 3 years and are twice as common in boys than girls. ...
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| x Tachycardia |
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Ventricular tachycardia |
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 Spasm |
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A spasm is a sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ, or a similarly sudden contraction of an orifice. It is sometimes accompanied by a sudden burst of pain, but is usually harmless and ceases after a few...
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| x Fecal incontinence |
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Prostate cancer |
Fecal incontinence is the loss of regular control of the bowels. Involuntary excretion and leaking are common occurrences for those affected. Subjects relating to defecation are often socially unacceptable, thus those affected are often beset by...
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| x Heartburn |
Heartburn or pyrosis is a painful and burning sensation in the esophagus, just below the breastbone usually associated with regurgitation of gastric acid. The pain often rises in the chest and may radiate to the neck, throat, or angle of the jaw....
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| x Dysphagia |
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Lung cancer |
Dysphagia is the medical term for the symptom of difficulty in swallowing. Although classified under "symptoms and signs" in ICD-10, the term is sometimes used as a condition in its own right. Sufferers are sometimes unaware of their dysphagia.
It...
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| x Cough | Lung cancer | Teriparatide |
A cough ( pronunciation (help·info) Latin: tussis), in medicine, is a sudden and often repetitively occurring defense reflex which helps to clear the large breathing passages from excess secretions, irritants, foreign particles and microbes. The...
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| x Dyspnea | Myocardial infarction |
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 Dysgeusia |
Dysgeusia is the distortion or decrease of the sense of taste. Dysgeusia is associated with zinc deficiency and some drugs designed to treat hypertension and anxiety, including lithium. It is also found in patients with severe renal insufficiency...
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| x Hemoptysis |
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Lung cancer |
Hemoptysis or haemoptysis is the expectoration (coughing up) of blood or of blood-stained sputum from the bronchi, larynx, trachea, or lungs (e.g. in tuberculosis or other respiratory infections).
This can be due to bronchitis or pneumonia most...
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| Small Cell Lung Carcinoma | ||||
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| x Fatigue |
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Systemic lupus erythematosus | Sipuleucel-T |
Fatigue is a major safety concern in many fields, but especially in transportation, because fatigue can result in disastrous accidents. Fatigue is considered an internal precondition for unsafe acts because it negatively affects the human operator's...
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| x Heart murmur |
Murmurs are extra heart sounds that are produced as a result of turbulent blood flow which is sufficient to produce audible noise. Murmurs may be present in normal hearts without any heart disease. These types of murmurs, often referred to as...
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| x Sputum |
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Sputum is matter that is expectorated from the respiratory tract, such as mucus or phlegm, mixed with saliva, which can then be spat from the mouth. It is usually associated with air passages in diseased lungs, bronchi, or upper respiratory tract....
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| x Polyuria | Multiple myeloma |
In medicine, polyuria is a condition characterized by the passage of large volumes of urine (at least 2.5 L over 24 hours in adults).
Polyuria often appears in conjunction with polydipsia (increased thirst), though it is possible to have one without...
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| x Apnea |
Apnea, apnoea, or apnœa (Greek: απνοια, from α-, privative, πνεειν, to breathe) is a term for suspension of external breathing. During apnea there is no movement of the muscles of respiration and the volume of the lungs initially remains unchanged....
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| x Diaphoresis |
Diaphoresis is excessive sweating commonly associated with shock and other medical emergency conditions.
Diaphoretic is the state of perspiring profusely, or something that has the power to cause increased perspiration.
Normal physical causes of...
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| x Persistent vegetative state |
A persistent vegetative state is a condition of patients with severe brain damage who were in a coma, but then progressed to a state of wakefulness without detectable awareness. It is a diagnosis of some uncertainty in that it deals with a syndrome,...
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| x Nystagmus |
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Pathologic nystagmus is a form of involuntary eye movement. It is characterized by alternating smooth pursuit in one direction and saccadic movement in the other direction.
When nystagmus occurs without filling its normal function, it is pathologic ...
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| x Cachexia | Lung cancer |
Cachexia (pronounced /kəˈkɛksiə/) is loss of weight, muscle atrophy, fatigue, weakness and significant loss of appetite in someone who is not actively trying to lose weight. The formal defintion of cachexia is the loss of body mass that cannot be...
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| x Bedwetting |
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Bedwetting is involuntary urination while asleep after the age at which bladder control would normally be anticipated. The medical term for this condition is "nocturnal enuresis." Primary nocturnal enuresis (PNE) is when a child has not yet stayed...
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| x Cyanosis |
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Pneumothorax |
Cyanosis is a blue coloration of the skin and mucous membranes due to the presence of > 5g/dl deoxygenated hemoglobin in blood vessels near the skin surface.
Although human blood is always a shade of red (except in rare cases of hemoglobin-related...
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| x Hyperventilation |
In medicine, hyperventilation (or overbreathing) is the state of breathing faster and/or deeper than necessary, bringing about lightheadedness and other undesirable symptoms often associated with panic attacks. Hyperventilation can also be a...
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| x Rales |
Rales, crackles or crepitations, are the clicking, rattling, or crackling noises heard on auscultation of (listening to) the lung with a stethoscope during inhalation. The sound is described variously as being similar to Rice Krispies when milk is...
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| x Weight loss |
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Beriberi |
Weight loss, in the context of medicine, health or physical fitness, is a reduction of the total body weight, due to a mean loss of fluid, body fat or adipose tissue and/or lean mass, namely bone mineral deposits, muscle, tendon and other connective...
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| x Cramp | Pelvic inflammatory disease | Teriparatide |
For the heraldic device, see cramp (heraldry); for the band, see The Cramps
Cramps are unpleasant, often painful sensations caused by contraction or over-shortening of muscles. Cramps can be caused by cold, overexertion or low calcium level in blood...
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| x Flushing |
For a person to flush is to become markedly red in the face and often other areas of the skin, from various physiological conditions. Flushing is generally distinguished, despite a close physiological relation between them, from blushing, which is...
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| x Encopresis |
Encopresis, from the Greek κοπρος (kopros, dung) is involuntary "fecal soiling" in children who have usually already been toilet trained. Children with encopresis often leak stool into their underwear.
The estimated prevalence of encopresis in 5...
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| x Palpitation | Myocardial infarction |
A palpitation is an abnormal awareness of the beating of the heart, whether it is too slow, too fast, irregular, or at its normal frequency. It can be caused by (but should not be confused with) ectopic beat, which is a more specific diagnosis.
The...
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| x Orthopnoea |
Orthopnea or orthopnoea (Greek from ortho, straight + pnoia, breath) is dyspnea which occurs when lying flat, causing the person to have to sleep propped up in bed or sitting in a chair. It is the opposite of platypnoea.
It is commonly measured...
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| x Anterograde amnesia | Temazepam |
Anterograde amnesia is a loss of memory of what happens after the event that caused the amnesia; it is different from retrograde amnesia, where memories prior to the event are forgotten. To a large degree, anterograde amnesia remains a mysterious...
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| x Rigor | Malaria | Sipuleucel-T |
Rigor is a shaking occurring during a high fever. It occurs because cytokines and prostaglandins are released as part of an immune response and increase the set point for body temperature in the hypothalamus.
The increased set point causes the body...
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| x Chest pain | Myocardial infarction |
In medicine, chest pain is a symptom of a number of serious conditions and is generally considered a medical emergency. Even though it may be determined that the chest pain is non-cardiac in origin, this is often a diagnosis of exclusion made after...
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| Pneumothorax | ||||
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| x Iron overload disorder |
In medicine, iron overload disorders are diseases caused by the accumulation of iron in the body. Organs commonly affected are the liver, heart and endocrine glands.
The terms "iron overload disorder", "iron overload", and "hemochromatosis" are...
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| x Hiccup |
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Esophageal cancer |
A hiccup or hiccough (pronounced /ˈhɪkʌp/ HICK-up), is the spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm that repeats several times per minute. In humans, the abrupt rush of air into the lungs causes the epiglottis to close, creating the "hic" Hiccupsound...
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| x Clubbing |
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Lung cancer |
In medicine, clubbing, finger clubbing, or digital clubbing is a deformity of the fingers and fingernails that is associated with a number of diseases, mostly of the heart and lungs. Idiopathic clubbing can also occur. Hippocrates was probably the...
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| x Tetany | 22q11.2 deletion syndrome |
Tetany has two meanings, though both are related to the muscular system.
The terms "tetany" and "tetanus" are distinct.
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| x Abdominal pain |
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Irritable bowel syndrome |
Abdominal pain or stomachache can be one of the symptoms associated with transient disorders or serious disease. Making a definitive diagnosis of the cause of abdominal pain can be difficult, because many diseases can result in this symptom....
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| x Polydipsia | Multiple myeloma |
Polydipsia is a medical symptom in which the patient displays excessive thirst. The word derives from the Greek πολυδιψία, which is derived from πολύς (polys, "much, many") + δίψα (dipsa, "thirst"). An etymologically related term is dipsomaniac,...
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| x Rash |
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A rash is a change of the skin which affects its color, appearance or texture. A rash may be localized in one part of the body, or affect all the skin. Rashes may cause the skin to change color, itch, become warm, bumpy, dry, cracked or blistered,...
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| x Somnolence | Temazepam |
Somnolence (or "drowsiness") is a state of near-sleep, a strong desire for sleep, or sleeping for unusually long periods (c.f. hypersomnia). It has two distinct meanings, referring both to the usual state preceding falling asleep, and the chronic...
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| x Dizziness | Left Bundle Branch Block | Temazepam |
Dizziness refers to an impairment in spatial perception and stability. It is considered imprecise. It can be used to mean vertigo, pre-syncopy / feeling faint, disequilibrium, or for a non-specific feeling such as giddiness or foolishness.
There are...
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| x Anasarca |
Anasarca, also known as "extreme generalized edema" is a medical condition characterised by widespread swelling of the skin due to effusion of fluid into the extracellular space. Often this condition manifests itself in the male genitals, causing...
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| x Cheyne-Stokes respiration |
Cheyne-Stokes respiration (/ˈtʃeɪnˈstoʊks/), also known as periodic breathing is an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by oscillation of ventilation between apnea and tachypnea with a crescendo-decrescendo pattern in the depth of...
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| x Respiratory arrest |
Respiratory arrest is the cessation of breathing. It is a medical emergency and it usually is related to or coincides with a cardiac arrest. Causes include opiate overdose, head injury, anaesthesia or drowning. Respiratory arrest is treated...
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