Symptom, Sign and Side Effect Terms

Exhaustion so complete that a person cannot rouse themselves to act, a description of severity rather than a diagnosis.

Itching with no rash to explain it shifts attention away from the skin and toward the liver, kidneys, blood and thyroid.

One word covering an enormous range of skin eruptions, which is why clinicians describe the shape, spread and feel instead.

Backward flow where a one-way arrangement is supposed to hold, and a word used far beyond the stomach it usually brings to mind.

The color and thickness of nasal discharge say far less about its cause than most people assume.

A symptom rather than a diagnosis, and a word stretched loosely to cover almost any leg pain that seems to start in the back.

Most seizures stop by themselves within a couple of minutes, and the confusion that follows often lasts considerably longer than the event.

A side effect is any effect of a medication, procedure, or other treatment beyond the one it was specifically intended to produce.

Size is what separates this from a bulla, and depth is what decides whether it heals with a scar or without one.

Splenomegaly is enlargement of the spleen beyond its expected size.

An increase in size that says nothing about the contents, which may be fluid, blood, pus, inflamed tissue or new growth.

The recovery is what defines it: consciousness returns on its own, quickly and completely, with nothing done to bring it back.

A fast heart is usually the body responding correctly to something else, and the real question is what that something else is.

Tachypnea is a breathing rate that is abnormally high for a person’s age and clinical circumstances.

Tiny surface vessels stretched permanently wide, visible as red threads that fade under pressure and refill the moment it lifts.

Thoracalgia refers to pain in the chest wall or chest region, a symptom that can stem from muscular, skeletal, or internal organ causes.

Most tinnitus is generated inside the hearing pathways of the brain rather than by the ear, which is why quiet rooms make it louder.

When the shaking appears matters far more than how bad it looks, because timing points to which part of the motor system is failing.

A description rather than a diagnosis, telling a reader that a surface has been lost and something is stopping it from closing.

Not the same thing as dizziness or faintness, and the distinction narrows the list of possible causes faster than any test.