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Signal symptom
A symptom that is premonitory of an impending condition such as the aura that precedes an attack of epilepsy or migraine.
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Presenting symptom
The symptom that led the patient to seek medical care.
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Pathognomonic symptom
A symptom that is unmistakably associated with a particular disease.
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Negative pathognomonic symptom
A symptom that never occurs in a certain disease or condition; hence, a symptom whose presence rules out the existence of that disease.
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Symptom management
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.
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Labyrinthine symptom
A group of symptoms (e.g., tinnitus, vertigo, or nausea) indicating a disease or lesion of the inner ear.
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Indirect symptom
A symptom occurring secondarily as a result of a disease in another organ system or body part.
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Focal symptom
A symptom caused by a lesion to a specific body part or a particular location in the central or peripheral nervous system.
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Dissociation symptom
Anesthesia to heat, cold, and pain without loss of tactile sensibility; seen in syringomyelia.
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Constitutional symptom
A symptom (e. g-, fever, malaise, loss of appetite) caused by or indicating systemic disease.
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