symptom has definitions from the field of medicine
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[ noun ] (medical) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease

Used in print

(The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)

This is a common symptom and the cause usually is pressure on the nerve leading to the affected hand .

(E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)

We pointed_out that emotional excitement may lead to psychosomatic_disorders and neurotic symptoms , particularly in certain types of personality , but it is also known that the reliving of a strong emotion ( `` abreaction '' ) may cure a battle neurosis .

Since strong nociceptive stimuli produce an experimental neurosis during which the animals fail to eat in the experimental situation , Wolpe thought that he could utilize the feeding pain antagonism to inhibit the neurotic symptoms through feeding .

Although in both emotions sympathetic symptoms are present , different autonomic somatic patterns underlie aggression and anxiety , respectively , as indicated by the rate of the excretion of the catecholamines , the state of the muscle_tone , and the Mecholyl_test .

(S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)

Eight or ten years ago , a_couple_of French hoods stole a priceless Khmer head from the Musee_Guimet , in Paris , and a week later crawled into the Salpetriere with unmistakable symptoms of leprosy .

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[ noun ] anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence

Used in print

(E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)

Moreover , the dominance in parasympathetic action ( with reciprocal inhibition of the sympathetic ) at the hypothalamic level induces , by its peripheral action , the autonomic symptoms of sleep and , by its action on the cortex , a lessening in the reactivity of the sensory and motor apparatus of the somatic nervous_system .

(Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)

Defining sobriety in the limited sense of being free from the clinical symptoms of the effects of alcohol ingested and not_yet eliminated from the system , you are sober .

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