| MID | maximum inhibiting dilution; mesioincisodistal; midinfarct dementia; minimum infective dose; minimum... |
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| MSIS | multi-state information system |
| MUMPS | Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System |
| COLD | Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease |
| COWS | Cold Opposite, Warm Same |
| presenting symptom | The complaint offered by the patient as the main reason for seeking medical care; usually synonymous with chief complaint. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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) |
| neurologic symptom | Neurologic symptoms can be variable. Examples include: numbness, tingling, hyperesthesia (increased sensitivity), paralysis, localised weakness, dysarthria (difficult speech), aphasia (inability to speak), dysphagia (difficulty swallowing), diplopia (double vision), amaurosis fugax (temporary loss of vision in one eye) difficulty walking, incoordination, tremor, seizures, confusion, lethargy, dementia, delirium and coma. All the above can be symptoms of stroke. (27 Sep 1997) |
| 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) |
| 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) |