noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
exhibit signs/symptoms/behaviour etc
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a patient who is exhibiting classic symptoms of mental illness
psychosomatic illness/symptoms/disorder etc
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Children are just as susceptible to psychosomatic conditions as adults.
relieve symptoms
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Drinking a pint of water should help to relieve the symptoms.
signs/symptoms/effects of stress
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Headaches, migraines, and irritability are all signs of stress.
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The effects of stress are subtle and sometimes difficult to see.
the symptoms of a disease (= physical signs that someone has a disease )
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To begin with, there are often no symptoms of the disease.
the symptoms of an illness
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Symptoms of the illness include vomiting and severe headaches.
withdrawal symptoms
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clinical
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Pneumonia was the clinical symptom most strongly associated with seroconversion among drug users.
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The clinical symptoms of magnesium excess or deficiency can be demonstrated to relate to this dependence.
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None experienced side effects or clinical symptoms .
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Patients with active colitis had clinical symptoms of urgency, loose stools, abdominal pain, and blood in the stool.
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Epigastric pain was the main clinical symptom of duodenal ulcer disease: this was experienced by all patients before entering the study.
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The commonest clinical symptom associated with V cholerae non-O1 infection is watery diarrhoea, mild to moderate in severity.
gastrointestinal
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No other significant association between gastrointestinal symptoms and a specific organism was found.
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No subject, however, complained of nausea or any other gastrointestinal tract symptoms at any time during the submaximal plateau.
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None of the healthy volunteers were taking any drug and none reported major gastrointestinal symptoms .
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More recently a series of anecdotal reports suggested that colonic neoplasia might be missed in patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms or lesions.
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Massive haematemesis or, less commonly, melaena, without previous gastrointestinal symptoms , is the typical presentation.
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Overall severity of gastrointestinal symptoms influenced the final height centile as it had height velocity during the initial years of follow up.
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The frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms was not consistently increased in patients harbouring specific infective agents compared with non-infected patients.
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Therefore, we have investigated the presence and absence of different gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with and without intestinal infections.
mental
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Although the mental symptoms could be a result of the physical ones, this seems unlikely.
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Both physical and mental symptoms were relieved, sometimes within days of discontinuing the drugs.
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It is much more important to look out for those strong, peculiar, characteristic symptoms and any mental or general symptoms.
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Similarly, the effects of alcohol abuse are often mistaken for depression, again because the physical and mental symptoms are similar.
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This would be an example of a mental symptom .
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So mental and general symptoms carry greater weight when evaluating a case.
mild
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One third of the patients had only mild symptoms after the initial treatment of their disease.
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However, some patients continue to suffer milder symptoms .
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Many patients are asymptomatic or have mild flu-like symptoms .
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Fifty four children had intermittent or continuing mild symptoms not requiring further prednisone during the first year.
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You may perhaps have some mild symptoms of the disease itself.
other
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Deep dyslexics exhibit several other reading symptoms too.
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Parkinson's disease is a degenerative brain disorder that causes tremors and muscle rigidity among other symptoms .
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No subject, however, complained of nausea or any other gastrointestinal tract symptoms at any time during the submaximal plateau.
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The remedy picture may include a lot of other symptoms that are not in the case itself.
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Two, who were most seriously ill with vomiting and other symptoms , were released after a week.
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If they can't, it may be a matter of waiting to see if other symptoms develop.
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Even with the other symptoms , the loss of a couple of pounds in a week seemed fine.
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The patient was thin, desired salt, and has other symptoms allowing the selection of Nat.
physical
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We have suggested that the experience of physical symptoms of anxiety result from stress.
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What they are saying is that some women have physical symptoms premenstrually, and that definitely is not a mental illness.
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From an assessment point of view this information establishes a baseline record of frequency of panic attacks or other physical symptoms .
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We might well ask what such physical symptoms are doing in a manual of mental illness.
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The physical symptoms occur as a result of too much oxygen and too little carbon dioxide.
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We all have quite individualized menus of physical symptoms and what they mean to us.
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It also helps the therapist identify antecedents, prominent physical symptoms , and catastrophic thoughts.
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Impaired self-esteem, stress, physical symptoms .
psychiatric
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Psychiatric symptoms Further data concerning the prevalence of a variety of psychiatric symptoms are available from the health and lifestyle survey.
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Indeed, his first patient was a Philadelphia man who suffered from epilepsy and psychiatric symptoms .
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The psychiatric symptoms of complex partial seizures are said to be indistinguishable from those of true psychiatric disorders.
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Limbic system disease, which causes both epilepsy and psychiatric symptoms .
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Against this was a marked reduction in psychiatric symptoms , scores declining on average by 40 percent.
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The authors' purpose in this paper was to attempt to dissect psychiatric symptoms and cognition in schizophrenia.
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Organic has tended to mean obvious damage of some sort, producing psychiatric symptoms .
respiratory
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We evaluated children's lung function and respiratory symptoms in relation to both length of gestation and the birth weight adjusted for gestational age.
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An analysis of the 1987 survey was undertaken to estimate the dose-response relations of height and respiratory symptoms to passive smoking.
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This was the sample used for the analysis of birth weight, gestational age, and respiratory symptoms .
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Conclusions - Over half the children presenting to this referral hospital with respiratory symptoms were hypoxaemic.
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The respiratory symptoms are its main indication for use.
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Most epidemiological studies have not analysed respiratory symptoms in relation to birth weight and gestational age separately.
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The mechanisms through which prenatal events influence lung function differ from those that affect respiratory symptoms in children.
severe
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His sister already has severe symptoms .
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The most anxious and most depressed kids had the most severe symptoms .
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Some people suffer quite severe symptoms of feeling dizzy or faint if they go long periods without eating.
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The real reason? Severe flu symptoms , he said.
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The reduction was due to more severe symptoms with longer hospital stay in the supportive care group.
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Future research in this field should also attempt to assess attributions before the more chronic and severe symptoms set in.
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On DeMeester-Johnson clinical score, 15 of 25 patients had no reflux, while eight reported mild and two moderately severe symptoms .
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Although we did not study any patients with severe symptoms , our findings seem to be clinically relevant.
■ NOUN
withdrawal
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Visitors and holidaymakers who suffer from machine knitting withdrawal symptoms are welcome at the meetings!
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But, of course, this only postpones the final reckoning and leads to more intense withdrawal symptoms later on.
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Many of the children suffer drug withdrawal symptoms .
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When you first stop taking caffeine, you may experience withdrawal symptoms .
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It was more than a forewarning of withdrawal symptoms .
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A heavy bout of drinking will produce temporary withdrawal symptoms as the brain and body strive to rebalance themselves.
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It is not long before their imaginative faculties are reactivated and word-processing becomes a universal withdrawal symptom .
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No withdrawal symptoms from prime-time fame?
■ VERB
alleviate
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Bee stings have been known to alleviate the symptoms of arthritis.
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They can, however, be of real benefit in alleviating symptoms and side-effects.
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A cold wet cloth placed on her cheeks will help alleviate the symptoms .
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To alleviate the symptoms , about one in five diabetics in rich countries injects himself regularly with insulin.
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This may be enough to alleviate the symptoms .
cause
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Repeated attempts to provoke an attack may cause the symptoms to disappear altogether.
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In multiple sclerosis it is the cholesterol-rich insulating layer that disintegrates and causes the symptoms .
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Hahnemann discovered that certain remedies caused particular symptoms in a healthy person.
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Syphilitic aneurysms cause most of their symptoms by pressure on surrounding structures in the chest.
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It states that a substance causing certain symptoms in a healthy person can cure a sick person with the same symptoms.
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As he progressed through food reintroductions he did not identify anything that caused symptoms .
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Make a note of which foods cause symptoms and which do not.
describe
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The way patients and their communities describe the symptoms also determines the type of help they will seek.
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Well, could she describe his symptoms ?
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Explain why you are concerned, describing the patient's symptoms carefully, and ask for advice.
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Or, putting it another way, it describes the symptoms , the effects, rather than the cause.
develop
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Often a son or daughter will have been on the brink of a promising career when they developed their first symptoms .
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Gradually developing hypertonicity produces less symptoms than that developing abruptly.
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They are being urged to see their own doctors if they develop symptoms such as a persistent cough, sweating or weight loss.
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But have I already developed any symptoms ?
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This would explain why most people fail to develop symptoms right at the beginning of the infestation.
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This means we begin to develop symptoms which can lead to illness.
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Although at the moment antibiotics are unable to treat E.coli, a new drug has recently been developed that fights the symptoms .
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In the United Kingdom over 95 percent of males with acute, uncomplicated gonorrhoea will develop symptoms of some sort.
display
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She was displaying all the classic symptoms .
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What you have are groups of people who display superficially similar symptoms for a variety of different reasons.
exhibit
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Deep dyslexics exhibit several other reading symptoms too.
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Betty Levin had been hospitalized for two weeks when her husband, Alvin, began exhibiting symptoms .
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We now exhibit the same symptoms of the same disease, the loss of myth.
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But when that remedy was given to a sick person exhibiting those same symptoms , it helped cure the person.
experience
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Was I sure I wasn't experiencing any symptoms ?
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When you first stop taking caffeine, you may experience withdrawal symptoms .
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Some people may experience symptoms shortly after infection.
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While in the hospital, he experienced no further symptoms .
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So it is the woman who will experience the first withdrawal symptoms .
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I have a friend who experienced such symptoms , so I suggested she tried adding sugar to her tea.
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First subjects are asked if they have experienced each symptom .
include
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The symptoms included memory lapses, depression, insomnia, daytime fatigue, slurred speech, confusion and migraine like headaches.
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Rather, poor eyesight uncorrected by glasses and harshly taxed by use may produce symptoms of strain, including headaches.
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Its symptoms can include the loss of your sense of humour.
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Other symptoms of dyslexia can include difficulty in writing, calculating or even understanding the spoken word.
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Initial symptoms include fever and mild sore throat.
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Now her symptoms include thinking and memory problems, sleep disturbances, heart palpitations, dizziness and weakness, Lopez said.
present
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Whatever the cause, the presenting symptom is therefore one that manifests focal brain dysfunction.
produce
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It is at this point that gonorrhoea may start to produce symptoms in the female.
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Nonspecialists are often reluctant to diagnose depression, which can produce symptoms ranging from insomnia to pelvic pain, Thompson says.
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Repression of these impulses may produce symptoms in the bowel region.
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Gradually developing hypertonicity produces less symptoms than that developing abruptly.
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Each contains histamine, which floods through the body producing symptoms including swelling, redness and cramps.
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Rather, poor eyesight uncorrected by glasses and harshly taxed by use may produce symptoms of strain, including headaches.
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Natural healing powers Our natural healing or life powers will cope with many of these stresses without ever producing any symptoms .
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Organic has tended to mean obvious damage of some sort, producing psychiatric symptoms .
relieve
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These are useful in relieving some of the symptoms of underdevelopment.
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Seldane was first introduced in 1985, the first prescription antihistamine to relieve hayfever symptoms without drowsiness.
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A colostomy was performed in an attempt to relieve her large bowel symptoms , and subsequently closed.
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But such a strategy would serve primarily to relieve some symptoms of poverty rather than its cause.
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Estrogen replacement relieves such symptoms of menopause as hot flashes and night sweats, reduces bone loss and relieves vaginal dryness.
report
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The media campaign is only a small part of a huge and impressive effort to get people to report their symptoms .
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For instance, there is a positive correlation between marital dissatisfaction and the reported intensity of premenstrual symptoms .
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In the reported cases, the symptoms occurred on average about 76 days from the time patients began protease inhibitor therapy.
show
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However, he too began to show symptoms of the same terrible disease, which was incurable in those days.
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The first died March 30, and a second was destroyed April 13 after showing symptoms of Ebola.
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A carrier of hepatitis B is infectious to other people even if he or she does not show symptoms .
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Then the cancer started to show new symptoms .
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Three fine calves had shown symptoms of acute gastric pain, I had treated them and they had died.
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High government officials began to show symptoms , as did chaste wives who had been infected by their straying husbands.
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She had fallen ill following a dinner at her son's house and had shown symptoms of arsenic poisoning.
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It shows frequent symptoms of hypochondria and neurasthenia.
suffer
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He suffered such terrible symptoms he tried to kill himself.
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Second baseman DeShields, who is suffering from flu-like symptoms , returned to practice after missing parts of the previous two.
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Hormones take the heat off Thousands of women suffer menopausal symptoms which could be relieved by a course of Hormone Replacement Therapy.
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Of the survivors, none suffered recurrent symptoms after complete recovery.
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Many of the children suffer drug withdrawal symptoms .
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Each was admitted as suffering from schizophrenic symptoms .
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However, some patients continue to suffer milder symptoms .
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There are even humans who can carry Vibrio cholerae in their guts and suffer no symptoms .
treat
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Herbal remedies tend to treat the symptoms , even if the actual cause is not known.
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As a result, Berman treats the symptoms .
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But too much debate focuses on measures to treat the symptoms of the malaise, rather than tackling the cause.
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But such an approach is a classic example of treating symptoms of organizational dysfunction, rather than its root causes.
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It's important for the whole family to be treated even if symptoms are not present, as infection occurs very easily.
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There is only time for doctors with magic pills that treat the symptoms .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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First the doctor asked me to describe my symptoms.
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In his speech the Bishop labelled these crimes as a symptom of society's moral decline.
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The first symptoms of hepatitis are tiredness, vomiting, and loss of weight.
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The tablets help relieve cold symptoms.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At each visit, symptoms and side effects were noted and blood was taken for haematological and biochemical screening tests.
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At the medical products firm we mentioned earlier, symptoms of denial were rife.
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His symptoms worsened over the next two days and he returned to the nutritionist.
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Just knowing that one is participating in a study of the menstrual cycle can increase reports of negative symptoms by 80 percent.
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She had no symptoms, except that no monthly showing of blood took place.
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The symptoms that he had put up with for 20 years now became a real problem.
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Usually, high blood pressure has no symptoms, so many people have it for years without knowing.