Symptom, Sign and Side Effect Terms

Daytime consequences rather than hours counted are what define it, since a short sleeper without them does not have insomnia.

A sensation with a nerve pathway of its own, not a mild form of pain, and sometimes a sign of something outside the skin.

In everyday speech it means tired; in a clinical note it means the level of consciousness itself has dropped, which is a different claim.

Lhermitte's sign is an electric shock like sensation down the spine triggered by bending the neck forward, pointing to spinal cord irritation.

Bleeding heavy enough to disrupt daily life often traces to fibroids, hormone shifts or an inherited clotting problem, and steadily drains iron.

A taste of coins or blood with nothing metal in the mouth, arising from the taste and smell pathways rather than the food.

Swelling of the abdomen caused by gas in the intestines or peritoneal cavity.

Muscle shrinking because it is not being used, not being fed, or is being broken down faster than the body rebuilds it.

Whether the ache sits in one muscle or everywhere at once is the first question, because the two lists of causes barely overlap.

Nausea is an uncomfortable stomach sensation often preceding vomiting, with causes ranging from motion and illness to medication and pregnancy.

Pain with no injury underneath it, which is why ordinary painkillers disappoint and drugs built for epilepsy and depression do not.

Most are found by accident on imaging ordered for something else entirely, and most of those turn out to mean nothing at all.

Sensation reduced or absent in an area, which is a different finding from the tingling and pins and needles it is often confused with.

The point at which a person becomes aware of pain.

The heart is normally silent to its owner, so noticing it at all is what turns an ordinary beat into a symptom.

Papilledema is swelling of the optic disc caused by raised pressure inside the skull, visible on examination of the eye.

Paralysis is the loss of voluntary muscle movement in part of the body, resulting from a disruption in the nerve signals that control it.

The distribution of the tingling carries most of the information, since it maps onto whichever nerve or nerve root is affected.

The sensation of pain or other unpleasant feelings in the place of a missing (phantom) limb.

One word, three unrelated meanings: a skin lesion, a fatty deposit inside an artery, and the bacterial film that coats teeth.