| symptomatic fever | Elevation of temperature following an injury. Synonym: symptomatic fever, wound fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| symptomatic headache | A headache secondary to another organic condition. Synonym: reflex headache. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symptomatic impotence | Impotence caused by disturbance of the sensory perineal reflexes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symptomatic myeloid metaplasia | Myeloid metaplasia occurring in individuals with another disease. Synonym: symptomatic myeloid metaplasia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symptomatic nanism | Dwarfism with defects in bone, dentition, and sexual development. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symptomatic neuralgia | Neuralgia occurring as a symptom of some local or systemic disease not involving primarily nerve structures. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symptomatic porphyria | A form of hepatic porphyria (porphyria, hepatic) characterised by photosensitivity resulting in bullae that rupture easily to form shallow ulcers. This condition occurs in two forms: a sporadic, nonfamilial form that begins in middle age and has normal amounts of uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase with diminished activity in the liver; and a familial form in which there is an autosomal dominant inherited deficiency of uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase in the liver and red blood cells. (12 Dec 1998) |
| symptomatic reaction | An allergic response similar to the original one, but occurring after the use of a test or therapeutic dose of an allergen or atopen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symptomatic tetany | Tetany from any cause in which neuromuscular hyperexcitability are clearly evident, as opposed to latent tetany. Synonym: symptomatic tetany. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symptomatic torticollis | Stiff neck due to cervical or neck myositis, chiefly of the sternocleidomastoid, occurring especially in children. Synonym: rheumatic torticollis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symptomatic treatment | Therapy aimed at relieving symptoms without necessarily affecting the basic underlying cause(s) of the symptoms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symptomatic ulcer | An ulcer due to systemic disease, such as tuberculosis. Synonym: symptomatic ulcer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symptomatic varicocele | A varicocele caused by obstruction of the internal spermatic vein, usually at the level of the renal vein and usually due to invasive renal cell carcinoma, characterised by failure of the dilated veins in the spermatic cord to empty when the patient assumes a recumbent position. (05 Mar 2000) |