| ASQ | Abbreviated Symptom Questionnaire; Anxiety Scale Questionnaire |
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| 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... |
| EPS | ear-patella-short stature [syndrome]; elastosis perforans serpiginosa; electrophysiologic study; enz... |
| FRS | Fellow of the Royal Society; ferredoxin-reducing substance; first rank symptom; furosemide |
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| symptom score | American Urological Association's scoring system to evaluate prostatic obstruction. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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) |
| Epstein's symptom | <clinical sign> Lid retraction in an infant giving it a frightened expression and a "wild glance." See: setting sun sign, Collier's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| equivocal symptom | A symptom that points definitely to no special disease, being associated with any one of a number of morbid states, or whose presence is uncertain or indefinite. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Uhthoff symptom | A transient temperature-dependent numbness, weakness, or loss of vision. Conduction stops in any nerve if the temperature gets too high. In a damaged nerve, e.g., by demyelinization, this shutdown temperature is lowered, and may approach normal body temperature. Transient neurological dysfunction may then appear with a hot shower, exercise, or fever. Synonym: Uhthoff syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kerandel's symptom | Deep-seated hyperesthesia observed in cases of sleeping sickness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kussmaul's symptom | <clinical sign> In constrictive pericarditis, a paradoxical increase in venous distention and pressure during inspiration; seen occasionally in effusive-constrictive pericarditis when tamponading pericardial fluid overlies a constricting epicarditis. Synonym: Kussmaul's symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Fischer's symptom | <clinical sign> An obsolete sign: in tuberculosis of the mediastinal or peri-bronchial glands, after bending the patient's head as far back as possible, auscultation over the manubrium sterni will sometimes reveal a continuous loud murmur caused by the pressure of the enlarged glands on the large mediastinal vessels. Synonym: Fischer's symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Frenkel's symptom | Lowered muscular tonus in tabetic neurosyphilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| localizing symptom | A symptom indicating clearly the seat of the morbid process. (05 Mar 2000) |