clinical sign
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objective indication of a medical fact or characteristic of a disease, injury, or abnormal physiological state that may be detected during the physical examination of a patient
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- symptom or sign
- Said to be same as
- symptom
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- topic's main category
- Category:Medical signs
- equivalent class
- schema.org/MedicalSign
- studied by
- symptomatology
- Commons category
- Medical signs and symptoms
- partially coincident with
- phenotype
- manifestation of
- medical state
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Encyclopedic overview
Signs (including enlarged liver and spleen) and symptoms (including headache and vomiting) of acute HIV infection
Signs and symptoms are diagnostic indications of an illness, injury, or condition. While signs are objective and externally observable, symptoms are a person's reported subjective experiences.
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