| APSQ | Abbreviated Parent Symptom Questionnaire |
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| ASC | acetylsulfanilyl chloride; altered state of consciousness; ambulatory surgical center; American Soci... |
| ASQ | Abbreviated Symptom Questionnaire; Anxiety Scale Questionnaire |
| BSI | behavior status inventory; blood stream infection; borderline syndrome index; bound serum iron; brai... |
| CSE | clinical-symptom/self-evaluation [questionnaire]; cone-shaped epiphysis; conventional spin-echo; cro... |
| subjective symptom | A symptom apparent only to the patient. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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) |
| symptom group | See: syndrome, complex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symptom score | American Urological Association's scoring system to evaluate prostatic obstruction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symptom substitution | 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) |
| incarceration symptom | Intermittent pain, sometimes with nausea and emesis, caused by intermittent proximal obstruction of ureter. Originally believed due to a mobile kidney that caused ureter to kink with positional changes. Synonym: incarceration symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| induced symptom | A symptom excited by a drug, exercise, or other means, often intentionally for diagnostic purposes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| objective symptom | A symptom that is evident to the observer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Oehler's symptom | A sudden pallor and coldness in the arm with slight disability, occurring on lifting of a heavy weight. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Trendelenburg's symptom | A waddling gait in paresis of the gluteal muscles, as in progressive muscular dystrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| triple symptom complex | <syndrome> A multisystem, chronic recurrent disease characterised by ulceration in the mouth and genitalia, iritis, uveitis, arthritis and thrombophlebitis. Often treated with immunosuppressive therapy (corticosteroids, chlorambucil). (27 Sep 1997) |