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An adhesion of the eyeball to the structures of the orbit.  

Living in a close association with humans.  

The family of bottom-dwelling, spiny fish that includes the stonefish, a toxic marine animal.  

A list of findings or patterns common to particular illnesses or diseases, e.g., psychological illnesses, traumatic injuries, or neoplastic diseases. Symptom inventories are used to assess or screen patients, to assign them to treatment groups, and to randomize groups of individuals by their similarities or differences so that they may be compared in research.  

A symptom for which there is no specific inciting cause and usually occurring at a point more or less remote from the point of disturbance.  

A symptom due to psychological rather than organic causes. The term is slang and refers to symptoms with causes originating “above the tentorium cerebelli” (i.e., in the brain rather than in the body).  

A symptom pert, to the condition of a single organ or structure without reference to the remainder of the body.  

A symptom that is premonitory of an impending condition such as the aura that precedes an attack of epilepsy or migraine.  

A symptom that never occurs in a certain disease or condition; hence, a symptom whose presence rules out the existence of that disease.  

An approach to palliative care that treats the symptoms rather than the cause of a condition. Its focus includes confusion, dizziness, fatigue, incontinence, nausea, shortness of breath, vomiting, and weakness.