SYMPTOM


Meaning of SYMPTOM in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

exhibit signs/symptoms/behaviour etc

a patient who is exhibiting classic symptoms of mental illness

psychosomatic illness/symptoms/disorder etc

Children are just as susceptible to psychosomatic conditions as adults.

relieve symptoms

Drinking a pint of water should help to relieve the symptoms.

signs/symptoms/effects of stress

Headaches, migraines, and irritability are all signs of stress.

The effects of stress are subtle and sometimes difficult to see.

the symptoms of a disease (= physical signs that someone has a disease )

To begin with, there are often no symptoms of the disease.

the symptoms of an illness

Symptoms of the illness include vomiting and severe headaches.

withdrawal symptoms

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

clinical

Pneumonia was the clinical symptom most strongly associated with seroconversion among drug users.

The clinical symptoms of magnesium excess or deficiency can be demonstrated to relate to this dependence.

None experienced side effects or clinical symptoms .

Patients with active colitis had clinical symptoms of urgency, loose stools, abdominal pain, and blood in the stool.

Epigastric pain was the main clinical symptom of duodenal ulcer disease: this was experienced by all patients before entering the study.

The commonest clinical symptom associated with V cholerae non-O1 infection is watery diarrhoea, mild to moderate in severity.

gastrointestinal

No other significant association between gastrointestinal symptoms and a specific organism was found.

No subject, however, complained of nausea or any other gastrointestinal tract symptoms at any time during the submaximal plateau.

None of the healthy volunteers were taking any drug and none reported major gastrointestinal symptoms .

More recently a series of anecdotal reports suggested that colonic neoplasia might be missed in patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms or lesions.

Massive haematemesis or, less commonly, melaena, without previous gastrointestinal symptoms , is the typical presentation.

Overall severity of gastrointestinal symptoms influenced the final height centile as it had height velocity during the initial years of follow up.

The frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms was not consistently increased in patients harbouring specific infective agents compared with non-infected patients.

Therefore, we have investigated the presence and absence of different gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with and without intestinal infections.

mental

Although the mental symptoms could be a result of the physical ones, this seems unlikely.

Both physical and mental symptoms were relieved, sometimes within days of discontinuing the drugs.

It is much more important to look out for those strong, peculiar, characteristic symptoms and any mental or general symptoms.

Similarly, the effects of alcohol abuse are often mistaken for depression, again because the physical and mental symptoms are similar.

This would be an example of a mental symptom .

So mental and general symptoms carry greater weight when evaluating a case.

mild

One third of the patients had only mild symptoms after the initial treatment of their disease.

However, some patients continue to suffer milder symptoms .

Many patients are asymptomatic or have mild flu-like symptoms .

Fifty four children had intermittent or continuing mild symptoms not requiring further prednisone during the first year.

You may perhaps have some mild symptoms of the disease itself.

other

Deep dyslexics exhibit several other reading symptoms too.

Parkinson's disease is a degenerative brain disorder that causes tremors and muscle rigidity among other symptoms .

No subject, however, complained of nausea or any other gastrointestinal tract symptoms at any time during the submaximal plateau.

The remedy picture may include a lot of other symptoms that are not in the case itself.

Two, who were most seriously ill with vomiting and other symptoms , were released after a week.

If they can't, it may be a matter of waiting to see if other symptoms develop.

Even with the other symptoms , the loss of a couple of pounds in a week seemed fine.

The patient was thin, desired salt, and has other symptoms allowing the selection of Nat.

physical

We have suggested that the experience of physical symptoms of anxiety result from stress.

What they are saying is that some women have physical symptoms premenstrually, and that definitely is not a mental illness.

From an assessment point of view this information establishes a baseline record of frequency of panic attacks or other physical symptoms .

We might well ask what such physical symptoms are doing in a manual of mental illness.

The physical symptoms occur as a result of too much oxygen and too little carbon dioxide.

We all have quite individualized menus of physical symptoms and what they mean to us.

It also helps the therapist identify antecedents, prominent physical symptoms , and catastrophic thoughts.

Impaired self-esteem, stress, physical symptoms .

psychiatric

Psychiatric symptoms Further data concerning the prevalence of a variety of psychiatric symptoms are available from the health and lifestyle survey.

Indeed, his first patient was a Philadelphia man who suffered from epilepsy and psychiatric symptoms .

The psychiatric symptoms of complex partial seizures are said to be indistinguishable from those of true psychiatric disorders.

Limbic system disease, which causes both epilepsy and psychiatric symptoms .

Against this was a marked reduction in psychiatric symptoms , scores declining on average by 40 percent.

The authors' purpose in this paper was to attempt to dissect psychiatric symptoms and cognition in schizophrenia.

Organic has tended to mean obvious damage of some sort, producing psychiatric symptoms .

respiratory

We evaluated children's lung function and respiratory symptoms in relation to both length of gestation and the birth weight adjusted for gestational age.

An analysis of the 1987 survey was undertaken to estimate the dose-response relations of height and respiratory symptoms to passive smoking.

This was the sample used for the analysis of birth weight, gestational age, and respiratory symptoms .

Conclusions - Over half the children presenting to this referral hospital with respiratory symptoms were hypoxaemic.

The respiratory symptoms are its main indication for use.

Most epidemiological studies have not analysed respiratory symptoms in relation to birth weight and gestational age separately.

The mechanisms through which prenatal events influence lung function differ from those that affect respiratory symptoms in children.

severe

His sister already has severe symptoms .

The most anxious and most depressed kids had the most severe symptoms .

Some people suffer quite severe symptoms of feeling dizzy or faint if they go long periods without eating.

The real reason? Severe flu symptoms , he said.

The reduction was due to more severe symptoms with longer hospital stay in the supportive care group.

Future research in this field should also attempt to assess attributions before the more chronic and severe symptoms set in.

On DeMeester-Johnson clinical score, 15 of 25 patients had no reflux, while eight reported mild and two moderately severe symptoms .

Although we did not study any patients with severe symptoms , our findings seem to be clinically relevant.

■ NOUN

withdrawal

Visitors and holidaymakers who suffer from machine knitting withdrawal symptoms are welcome at the meetings!

But, of course, this only postpones the final reckoning and leads to more intense withdrawal symptoms later on.

Many of the children suffer drug withdrawal symptoms .

When you first stop taking caffeine, you may experience withdrawal symptoms .

It was more than a forewarning of withdrawal symptoms .

A heavy bout of drinking will produce temporary withdrawal symptoms as the brain and body strive to rebalance themselves.

It is not long before their imaginative faculties are reactivated and word-processing becomes a universal withdrawal symptom .

No withdrawal symptoms from prime-time fame?

■ VERB

alleviate

Bee stings have been known to alleviate the symptoms of arthritis.

They can, however, be of real benefit in alleviating symptoms and side-effects.

A cold wet cloth placed on her cheeks will help alleviate the symptoms .

To alleviate the symptoms , about one in five diabetics in rich countries injects himself regularly with insulin.

This may be enough to alleviate the symptoms .

cause

Repeated attempts to provoke an attack may cause the symptoms to disappear altogether.

In multiple sclerosis it is the cholesterol-rich insulating layer that disintegrates and causes the symptoms .

Hahnemann discovered that certain remedies caused particular symptoms in a healthy person.

Syphilitic aneurysms cause most of their symptoms by pressure on surrounding structures in the chest.

It states that a substance causing certain symptoms in a healthy person can cure a sick person with the same symptoms.

As he progressed through food reintroductions he did not identify anything that caused symptoms .

Make a note of which foods cause symptoms and which do not.

describe

The way patients and their communities describe the symptoms also determines the type of help they will seek.

Well, could she describe his symptoms ?

Explain why you are concerned, describing the patient's symptoms carefully, and ask for advice.

Or, putting it another way, it describes the symptoms , the effects, rather than the cause.

develop

Often a son or daughter will have been on the brink of a promising career when they developed their first symptoms .

Gradually developing hypertonicity produces less symptoms than that developing abruptly.

They are being urged to see their own doctors if they develop symptoms such as a persistent cough, sweating or weight loss.

But have I already developed any symptoms ?

This would explain why most people fail to develop symptoms right at the beginning of the infestation.

This means we begin to develop symptoms which can lead to illness.

Although at the moment antibiotics are unable to treat E.coli, a new drug has recently been developed that fights the symptoms .

In the United Kingdom over 95 percent of males with acute, uncomplicated gonorrhoea will develop symptoms of some sort.

display

She was displaying all the classic symptoms .

What you have are groups of people who display superficially similar symptoms for a variety of different reasons.

exhibit

Deep dyslexics exhibit several other reading symptoms too.

Betty Levin had been hospitalized for two weeks when her husband, Alvin, began exhibiting symptoms .

We now exhibit the same symptoms of the same disease, the loss of myth.

But when that remedy was given to a sick person exhibiting those same symptoms , it helped cure the person.

experience

Was I sure I wasn't experiencing any symptoms ?

When you first stop taking caffeine, you may experience withdrawal symptoms .

Some people may experience symptoms shortly after infection.

While in the hospital, he experienced no further symptoms .

So it is the woman who will experience the first withdrawal symptoms .

I have a friend who experienced such symptoms , so I suggested she tried adding sugar to her tea.

First subjects are asked if they have experienced each symptom .

include

The symptoms included memory lapses, depression, insomnia, daytime fatigue, slurred speech, confusion and migraine like headaches.

Rather, poor eyesight uncorrected by glasses and harshly taxed by use may produce symptoms of strain, including headaches.

Its symptoms can include the loss of your sense of humour.

Other symptoms of dyslexia can include difficulty in writing, calculating or even understanding the spoken word.

Initial symptoms include fever and mild sore throat.

Now her symptoms include thinking and memory problems, sleep disturbances, heart palpitations, dizziness and weakness, Lopez said.

present

Whatever the cause, the presenting symptom is therefore one that manifests focal brain dysfunction.

produce

It is at this point that gonorrhoea may start to produce symptoms in the female.

Nonspecialists are often reluctant to diagnose depression, which can produce symptoms ranging from insomnia to pelvic pain, Thompson says.

Repression of these impulses may produce symptoms in the bowel region.

Gradually developing hypertonicity produces less symptoms than that developing abruptly.

Each contains histamine, which floods through the body producing symptoms including swelling, redness and cramps.

Rather, poor eyesight uncorrected by glasses and harshly taxed by use may produce symptoms of strain, including headaches.

Natural healing powers Our natural healing or life powers will cope with many of these stresses without ever producing any symptoms .

Organic has tended to mean obvious damage of some sort, producing psychiatric symptoms .

relieve

These are useful in relieving some of the symptoms of underdevelopment.

Seldane was first introduced in 1985, the first prescription antihistamine to relieve hayfever symptoms without drowsiness.

A colostomy was performed in an attempt to relieve her large bowel symptoms , and subsequently closed.

But such a strategy would serve primarily to relieve some symptoms of poverty rather than its cause.

Estrogen replacement relieves such symptoms of menopause as hot flashes and night sweats, reduces bone loss and relieves vaginal dryness.

report

The media campaign is only a small part of a huge and impressive effort to get people to report their symptoms .

For instance, there is a positive correlation between marital dissatisfaction and the reported intensity of premenstrual symptoms .

In the reported cases, the symptoms occurred on average about 76 days from the time patients began protease inhibitor therapy.

show

However, he too began to show symptoms of the same terrible disease, which was incurable in those days.

The first died March 30, and a second was destroyed April 13 after showing symptoms of Ebola.

A carrier of hepatitis B is infectious to other people even if he or she does not show symptoms .

Then the cancer started to show new symptoms .

Three fine calves had shown symptoms of acute gastric pain, I had treated them and they had died.

High government officials began to show symptoms , as did chaste wives who had been infected by their straying husbands.

She had fallen ill following a dinner at her son's house and had shown symptoms of arsenic poisoning.

It shows frequent symptoms of hypochondria and neurasthenia.

suffer

He suffered such terrible symptoms he tried to kill himself.

Second baseman DeShields, who is suffering from flu-like symptoms , returned to practice after missing parts of the previous two.

Hormones take the heat off Thousands of women suffer menopausal symptoms which could be relieved by a course of Hormone Replacement Therapy.

Of the survivors, none suffered recurrent symptoms after complete recovery.

Many of the children suffer drug withdrawal symptoms .

Each was admitted as suffering from schizophrenic symptoms .

However, some patients continue to suffer milder symptoms .

There are even humans who can carry Vibrio cholerae in their guts and suffer no symptoms .

treat

Herbal remedies tend to treat the symptoms , even if the actual cause is not known.

As a result, Berman treats the symptoms .

But too much debate focuses on measures to treat the symptoms of the malaise, rather than tackling the cause.

But such an approach is a classic example of treating symptoms of organizational dysfunction, rather than its root causes.

It's important for the whole family to be treated even if symptoms are not present, as infection occurs very easily.

There is only time for doctors with magic pills that treat the symptoms .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

First the doctor asked me to describe my symptoms.

In his speech the Bishop labelled these crimes as a symptom of society's moral decline.

The first symptoms of hepatitis are tiredness, vomiting, and loss of weight.

The tablets help relieve cold symptoms.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At each visit, symptoms and side effects were noted and blood was taken for haematological and biochemical screening tests.

At the medical products firm we mentioned earlier, symptoms of denial were rife.

His symptoms worsened over the next two days and he returned to the nutritionist.

Just knowing that one is participating in a study of the menstrual cycle can increase reports of negative symptoms by 80 percent.

She had no symptoms, except that no monthly showing of blood took place.

The symptoms that he had put up with for 20 years now became a real problem.

Usually, high blood pressure has no symptoms, so many people have it for years without knowing.

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