Symptom in medicine: any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease.
Subjective symptoms are what you feel such as headache, nausea, anxiety, abdominal cramps and so on.
Objective symptoms are what your doctor observes: abnormal heart or lung sounds, thyroid gland enlargement, palpable tumors and so on.
Symptoms are clear cut most of the time. Half sided blindingheadache, sensitivity to light with nausea is most likelymigraine headache. Sudden pain under the right ribs which refers tothe back, accompanied by nausea and comes in waves is most likelygallbladder stone.
Other conditions are signaled by more complexsymptoms such as increased appetite with weight loss, nervousness,faster heart rate, increased sweating, tremor of the fingers andtongue with heat intolerance, usually signalshyperthyroidism.
Symptoms can be unusual and even wacky at times,as if the body is a little confused and sending signals which need some interpretation.
You might ask, what on earth is my earlobehave to do with the condition of my arteries, or if I have frequent hangnails do I really have vitamin C deficiency?
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