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symptom Med any sensation or change in bodily function experienced by a patient that is associated with a particular disease symptom [′sim·təm] (medicine) A phenomenon of physical or mental disorder or disturbance which leads to complaints on the part of the patient. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| No sooner, therefore, had this symptom appeared, than he had immediate recourse to the said remedy, which though, as it is usual in all very efficacious medicines, it at first seemed to heighten and inflame the disease, soon produced a total calm, and restored the patient to perfect ease and tranquillity. It may have been a flash of honesty in him; or mere prudential policy which, under the circumstance, imperiously forbade the slightest symptom of open disaffection, however transient, in the important chief officer of his ship. Grant, I believe, suspects him of a preference for Julia; I have never seen much symptom of it, but I wish it may be so. |
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