Letter S

Symptom

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Any subjective evidence of disease.

Anxiety, lower back pain, and fatigue are all symptoms.

They are sensations only the patient can perceive.

In contrast, a sign is objective evidence of disease.

A bloody nose is a sign.

It is evident to the patient, doctor, nurse and other observers

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