| alarm symptom |
A symptom that raises the concern that a patient may have a severe illness and requires careful evaluation. For example, in patients with digestive illnesses, findings such as anemia, anorexia, bleeding, dehydration, fever, weight
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| alarm r. |
the physiologic effects in response to acute stress, fright, or rage (increased blood pressure and cardiac output, increased blood flow to skeletal muscles, decreased flow to the viscera, increased rate of glycolysis and blood glucose concentration), mediated by sympathetic nervous system discharge and release of adrenal medullary hormones; called also fight-or-flight r. See also stress r.
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