Symptom, Sign and Side Effect Terms

The medical name for a nosebleed, and one of the few bleeding sites where the exact spot decides how easily it stops.

Pressing on the area is the quickest test, since redness from widened vessels fades under a finger and bleeding into skin does not.

On its own the word describes a mood, not a diagnosis; what matters clinically is what produced it and how long it lasts.

Persistent exhaustion that does not fully resolve with rest, fatigue can arise from physical illness, psychological strain, or simply insufficient sleep.

Fever is a rise in body temperature above an individual's normal baseline, usually triggered by infection or another underlying inflammatory process.

It moves in waves rather than through tidy stages, and shows up in sleep, appetite and concentration as much as in mood.

Which sense is involved narrows the cause sharply, because heard voices and seen figures point in quite different clinical directions.

Most murmurs are harmless noise from normal blood flow, which is why the character of the sound matters more than its presence.

The name is a misnomer, and the overlap with chest pain from the heart is exactly why the two are so often confused.

A bruise stains the tissue, while a hematoma occupies space, and the trouble it causes comes mostly from what it presses on.

Color is a poor guide here, since beets and some medicines redden urine while a serious cause may leave it looking normal.

In heavy bleeding it is the flooding of the airways, not the volume of blood lost, that does the damage.

Hepatomegaly is enlargement of the liver beyond its expected size.

More glucose circulating than the body can move into its cells, a state with several causes besides diabetes.

Welts that move: individual patches fade within a day while new ones rise elsewhere, which is what separates them from most other rashes.

Activity above the normal level, whether that means a restless child or a gland working far too hard.

Often blamed on nerves, but the same pattern is one of the earliest warnings of serious illness elsewhere in the body.

Blood pressure that is lower than expected for a person or situation.

Oxygen can fail tissue at several points along its journey, and where the failure happens defines the type of hypoxia.

An adjective rather than a diagnosis, it labels how much oxygen a place holds, from a whole body to one tumor core.