| NDS | Naval Dental School; neurologic deficit score; new drug submission; normal dog serum |
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| NOSIC | Neurologic Outcome Scale for Infants and Children |
| NVS | neurologic vital signs |
| PRIND | prolonged reversible ischemic neurologic deficit |
| QENF | quantifying examination of neurologic function |
| Romberg-Howship symptom | In cases of incarcerated obturator hernia; lancinating pains along the inner side of the thigh to the knee, or down the leg to the foot; caused by compression of the obturator nerve. Synonym: Romberg's symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Romberg's symptom | <clinical sign> With feet approximated, the patient stands with eyes open and then closed; if closing the eyes increases the unsteadiness, a loss of proprioceptive control is indicated, and the sign is positive. Synonym: Romberg test, Romberg's symptom, rombergism, station test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wartenberg's symptom | Intense pruritus of the tip of the nose and nostrils in cases of cerebral tumour, flexion of the thumb when the patient attempts to flex the four fingers against resistance, a "pyramid sign". (05 Mar 2000) |
| concomitant symptom | A symptom that usually but not always accompanies a certain disease, as distinguished from a pathognomonic symptom. Synonym: assident symptom, concomitant symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| constitutional symptom | A symptom indicating a systemic effect of a disease; e.g., weight loss. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Haenel's symptom | Absence of sensation on pressure of the eyeball in tabes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pratt's symptom | Rigidity in the muscles of an injured limb, which precedes the occurrence of gangrene. (05 Mar 2000) |
| presenting symptom | The complaint offered by the patient as the main reason for seeking medical care; usually synonymous with chief complaint. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sklowsky symptom | The rupture of a varicella vesicle on very slight pressure with the finger, greater pressure being necessary to break the vesicles of smallpox, herpes, or other affections. (05 Mar 2000) |
| subjective symptom | A symptom apparent only to the patient. (05 Mar 2000) |
| deficiency symptom | Manifestation of a lack, in varying degrees, of some substance (e.g., hormone, enzyme, vitamin) necessary for normal structure and/or function of an organism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Demarquay's symptom | Absence of elevation of the larynx during deglutition, said to indicate syphilitic induration of the trachea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sympathetic symptom | A disturbance of sensation or function in an organ or part more or less remote from the morbid condition giving rise to it; e.g., muscle spasm due to joint inflammation. Synonym: sympathetic symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symptom | Any subjective evidence of disease or of a patients condition, i.e. Such evidence as perceived by the patient, a change in a patients condition indicative of some bodily or mental state. Origin: L. Symptoma, Gr. Symptoma = anything that has befallen one (18 Nov 1997) |
| symptom formation | An unconscious psychological process by which a repressed impulse is indirectly manifested through a particular symptom, e.g., anxiety, compulsion, depression, hallucination, obsession. Synonym: symptom formation. (05 Mar 2000) |