noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
exhibit signs/symptoms/behaviour etc
▪ a patient who is exhibiting classic symptoms of mental illness
psychosomatic illness/symptoms/disorder etc
▪ Children are just as susceptible to psychosomatic conditions as adults.
relieve symptoms
▪ Drinking a pint of water should help to relieve the symptoms.
signs/symptoms/effects of stress
▪ Headaches, migraines, and irritability are all signs of stress.
▪ The effects of stress are subtle and sometimes difficult to see.
the symptoms of a disease (=physical signs that someone has a disease)
▪ To begin with, there are often no symptoms of the disease.
the symptoms of an illness
▪ Symptoms of the illness include vomiting and severe headaches.
withdrawal symptoms
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clinical
▪ Pneumonia was the clinical symptom most strongly associated with seroconversion among drug users.
▪ The clinical symptoms of magnesium excess or deficiency can be demonstrated to relate to this dependence.
▪ None experienced side effects or clinical symptoms.
▪ Patients with active colitis had clinical symptoms of urgency, loose stools, abdominal pain, and blood in the stool.
▪ Epigastric pain was the main clinical symptom of duodenal ulcer disease: this was experienced by all patients before entering the study.
▪ The commonest clinical symptom associated with V cholerae non-O1 infection is watery diarrhoea, mild to moderate in severity.
gastrointestinal
▪ No other significant association between gastrointestinal symptoms and a specific organism was found.
▪ No subject, however, complained of nausea or any other gastrointestinal tract symptoms at any time during the submaximal plateau.
▪ None of the healthy volunteers were taking any drug and none reported major gastrointestinal symptoms.
▪ More recently a series of anecdotal reports suggested that colonic neoplasia might be missed in patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms or lesions.
▪ Massive haematemesis or, less commonly, melaena, without previous gastrointestinal symptoms, is the typical presentation.
▪ Overall severity of gastrointestinal symptoms influenced the final height centile as it had height velocity during the initial years of follow up.
▪ The frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms was not consistently increased in patients harbouring specific infective agents compared with non-infected patients.
▪ Therefore, we have investigated the presence and absence of different gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with and without intestinal infections.
mental
▪ Although the mental symptoms could be a result of the physical ones, this seems unlikely.
▪ Both physical and mental symptoms were relieved, sometimes within days of discontinuing the drugs.
▪ It is much more important to look out for those strong, peculiar, characteristic symptoms and any mental or general symptoms.
▪ Similarly, the effects of alcohol abuse are often mistaken for depression, again because the physical and mental symptoms are similar.
▪ This would be an example of a mental symptom.
▪ So mental and general symptoms carry greater weight when evaluating a case.
mild
▪ One third of the patients had only mild symptoms after the initial treatment of their disease.
▪ However, some patients continue to suffer milder symptoms.
▪ Many patients are asymptomatic or have mild flu-like symptoms.
▪ Fifty four children had intermittent or continuing mild symptoms not requiring further prednisone during the first year.
▪ You may perhaps have some mild symptoms of the disease itself.
other
▪ Deep dyslexics exhibit several other reading symptoms too.
▪ Parkinson's disease is a degenerative brain disorder that causes tremors and muscle rigidity among other symptoms.
▪ No subject, however, complained of nausea or any other gastrointestinal tract symptoms at any time during the submaximal plateau.
▪ The remedy picture may include a lot of other symptoms that are not in the case itself.
▪ Two, who were most seriously ill with vomiting and other symptoms, were released after a week.
▪ If they can't, it may be a matter of waiting to see if other symptoms develop.
▪ Even with the other symptoms, the loss of a couple of pounds in a week seemed fine.
▪ The patient was thin, desired salt, and has other symptoms allowing the selection of Nat.
physical
▪ We have suggested that the experience of physical symptoms of anxiety result from stress.
▪ What they are saying is that some women have physical symptoms premenstrually, and that definitely is not a mental illness.
▪ From an assessment point of view this information establishes a baseline record of frequency of panic attacks or other physical symptoms.
▪ We might well ask what such physical symptoms are doing in a manual of mental illness.
▪ The physical symptoms occur as a result of too much oxygen and too little carbon dioxide.
▪ We all have quite individualized menus of physical symptoms and what they mean to us.
▪ It also helps the therapist identify antecedents, prominent physical symptoms, and catastrophic thoughts.
▪ Impaired self-esteem, stress, physical symptoms.
psychiatric
▪ Psychiatric symptoms Further data concerning the prevalence of a variety of psychiatric symptoms are available from the health and lifestyle survey.
▪ Indeed, his first patient was a Philadelphia man who suffered from epilepsy and psychiatric symptoms.
▪ The psychiatric symptoms of complex partial seizures are said to be indistinguishable from those of true psychiatric disorders.
▪ Limbic system disease, which causes both epilepsy and psychiatric symptoms.
▪ Against this was a marked reduction in psychiatric symptoms, scores declining on average by 40 percent.
▪ The authors' purpose in this paper was to attempt to dissect psychiatric symptoms and cognition in schizophrenia.
▪ Organic has tended to mean obvious damage of some sort, producing psychiatric symptoms.
respiratory
▪ We evaluated children's lung function and respiratory symptoms in relation to both length of gestation and the birth weight adjusted for gestational age.
▪ An analysis of the 1987 survey was undertaken to estimate the dose-response relations of height and respiratory symptoms to passive smoking.
▪ This was the sample used for the analysis of birth weight, gestational age, and respiratory symptoms.
▪ Conclusions - Over half the children presenting to this referral hospital with respiratory symptoms were hypoxaemic.
▪ The respiratory symptoms are its main indication for use.
▪ Most epidemiological studies have not analysed respiratory symptoms in relation to birth weight and gestational age separately.
▪ The mechanisms through which prenatal events influence lung function differ from those that affect respiratory symptoms in children.
severe
▪ His sister already has severe symptoms.
▪ The most anxious and most depressed kids had the most severe symptoms.
▪ Some people suffer quite severe symptoms of feeling dizzy or faint if they go long periods without eating.
▪ The real reason? Severe flu symptoms, he said.
▪ The reduction was due to more severe symptoms with longer hospital stay in the supportive care group.
▪ Future research in this field should also attempt to assess attributions before the more chronic and severe symptoms set in.
▪ On DeMeester-Johnson clinical score, 15 of 25 patients had no reflux, while eight reported mild and two moderately severe symptoms.
▪ Although we did not study any patients with severe symptoms, our findings seem to be clinically relevant.
■ NOUN
withdrawal
▪ Visitors and holidaymakers who suffer from machine knitting withdrawal symptoms are welcome at the meetings!
▪ But, of course, this only postpones the final reckoning and leads to more intense withdrawal symptoms later on.
▪ Many of the children suffer drug withdrawal symptoms.
▪ When you first stop taking caffeine, you may experience withdrawal symptoms.
▪ It was more than a forewarning of withdrawal symptoms.
▪ A heavy bout of drinking will produce temporary withdrawal symptoms as the brain and body strive to rebalance themselves.
▪ It is not long before their imaginative faculties are reactivated and word-processing becomes a universal withdrawal symptom.
▪ No withdrawal symptoms from prime-time fame?
■ VERB
alleviate
▪ Bee stings have been known to alleviate the symptoms of arthritis.
▪ They can, however, be of real benefit in alleviating symptoms and side-effects.
▪ A cold wet cloth placed on her cheeks will help alleviate the symptoms.
▪ To alleviate the symptoms, about one in five diabetics in rich countries injects himself regularly with insulin.
▪ This may be enough to alleviate the symptoms.
cause
▪ Repeated attempts to provoke an attack may cause the symptoms to disappear altogether.
▪ In multiple sclerosis it is the cholesterol-rich insulating layer that disintegrates and causes the symptoms.
▪ Hahnemann discovered that certain remedies caused particular symptoms in a healthy person.
▪ Syphilitic aneurysms cause most of their symptoms by pressure on surrounding structures in the chest.
▪ It states that a substance causing certain symptoms in a healthy person can cure a sick person with the same symptoms.
▪ As he progressed through food reintroductions he did not identify anything that caused symptoms.
▪ Make a note of which foods cause symptoms and which do not.
describe
▪ The way patients and their communities describe the symptoms also determines the type of help they will seek.
▪ Well, could she describe his symptoms?
▪ Explain why you are concerned, describing the patient's symptoms carefully, and ask for advice.
▪ Or, putting it another way, it describes the symptoms, the effects, rather than the cause.
develop
▪ Often a son or daughter will have been on the brink of a promising career when they developed their first symptoms.
▪ Gradually developing hypertonicity produces less symptoms than that developing abruptly.
▪ They are being urged to see their own doctors if they develop symptoms such as a persistent cough, sweating or weight loss.
▪ But have I already developed any symptoms?
▪ This would explain why most people fail to develop symptoms right at the beginning of the infestation.
▪ This means we begin to develop symptoms which can lead to illness.
▪ Although at the moment antibiotics are unable to treat E.coli, a new drug has recently been developed that fights the symptoms.
▪ In the United Kingdom over 95 percent of males with acute, uncomplicated gonorrhoea will develop symptoms of some sort.
display
▪ She was displaying all the classic symptoms.
▪ What you have are groups of people who display superficially similar symptoms for a variety of different reasons.
exhibit
▪ Deep dyslexics exhibit several other reading symptoms too.
▪ Betty Levin had been hospitalized for two weeks when her husband, Alvin, began exhibiting symptoms.
▪ We now exhibit the same symptoms of the same disease, the loss of myth.
▪ But when that remedy was given to a sick person exhibiting those same symptoms, it helped cure the person.
experience
▪ Was I sure I wasn't experiencing any symptoms?
▪ When you first stop taking caffeine, you may experience withdrawal symptoms.
▪ Some people may experience symptoms shortly after infection.
▪ While in the hospital, he experienced no further symptoms.
▪ So it is the woman who will experience the first withdrawal symptoms.
▪ I have a friend who experienced such symptoms, so I suggested she tried adding sugar to her tea.
▪ First subjects are asked if they have experienced each symptom.
include
▪ The symptoms included memory lapses, depression, insomnia, daytime fatigue, slurred speech, confusion and migraine like headaches.
▪ Rather, poor eyesight uncorrected by glasses and harshly taxed by use may produce symptoms of strain, including headaches.
▪ Its symptoms can include the loss of your sense of humour.
▪ Other symptoms of dyslexia can include difficulty in writing, calculating or even understanding the spoken word.
▪ Initial symptoms include fever and mild sore throat.
▪ Now her symptoms include thinking and memory problems, sleep disturbances, heart palpitations, dizziness and weakness, Lopez said.
present
▪ Whatever the cause, the presenting symptom is therefore one that manifests focal brain dysfunction.
produce
▪ It is at this point that gonorrhoea may start to produce symptoms in the female.
▪ Nonspecialists are often reluctant to diagnose depression, which can produce symptoms ranging from insomnia to pelvic pain, Thompson says.
▪ Repression of these impulses may produce symptoms in the bowel region.
▪ Gradually developing hypertonicity produces less symptoms than that developing abruptly.
▪ Each contains histamine, which floods through the body producing symptoms including swelling, redness and cramps.
▪ Rather, poor eyesight uncorrected by glasses and harshly taxed by use may produce symptoms of strain, including headaches.
▪ Natural healing powers Our natural healing or life powers will cope with many of these stresses without ever producing any symptoms.
▪ Organic has tended to mean obvious damage of some sort, producing psychiatric symptoms.
relieve
▪ These are useful in relieving some of the symptoms of underdevelopment.
▪ Seldane was first introduced in 1985, the first prescription antihistamine to relieve hayfever symptoms without drowsiness.
▪ A colostomy was performed in an attempt to relieve her large bowel symptoms, and subsequently closed.
▪ But such a strategy would serve primarily to relieve some symptoms of poverty rather than its cause.
▪ Estrogen replacement relieves such symptoms of menopause as hot flashes and night sweats, reduces bone loss and relieves vaginal dryness.
report
▪ The media campaign is only a small part of a huge and impressive effort to get people to report their symptoms.
▪ For instance, there is a positive correlation between marital dissatisfaction and the reported intensity of premenstrual symptoms.
▪ In the reported cases, the symptoms occurred on average about 76 days from the time patients began protease inhibitor therapy.
show
▪ However, he too began to show symptoms of the same terrible disease, which was incurable in those days.
▪ The first died March 30, and a second was destroyed April 13 after showing symptoms of Ebola.
▪ A carrier of hepatitis B is infectious to other people even if he or she does not show symptoms.
▪ Then the cancer started to show new symptoms.
▪ Three fine calves had shown symptoms of acute gastric pain, I had treated them and they had died.
▪ High government officials began to show symptoms, as did chaste wives who had been infected by their straying husbands.
▪ She had fallen ill following a dinner at her son's house and had shown symptoms of arsenic poisoning.
▪ It shows frequent symptoms of hypochondria and neurasthenia.
suffer
▪ He suffered such terrible symptoms he tried to kill himself.
▪ Second baseman DeShields, who is suffering from flu-like symptoms, returned to practice after missing parts of the previous two.
▪ Hormones take the heat off Thousands of women suffer menopausal symptoms which could be relieved by a course of Hormone Replacement Therapy.
▪ Of the survivors, none suffered recurrent symptoms after complete recovery.
▪ Many of the children suffer drug withdrawal symptoms.
▪ Each was admitted as suffering from schizophrenic symptoms.
▪ However, some patients continue to suffer milder symptoms.
▪ There are even humans who can carry Vibrio cholerae in their guts and suffer no symptoms.
treat
▪ Herbal remedies tend to treat the symptoms, even if the actual cause is not known.
▪ As a result, Berman treats the symptoms.
▪ But too much debate focuses on measures to treat the symptoms of the malaise, rather than tackling the cause.
▪ But such an approach is a classic example of treating symptoms of organizational dysfunction, rather than its root causes.
▪ It's important for the whole family to be treated even if symptoms are not present, as infection occurs very easily.
▪ There is only time for doctors with magic pills that treat the symptoms.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ First the doctor asked me to describe my symptoms.
▪ In his speech the Bishop labelled these crimes as a symptom of society's moral decline.
▪ The first symptoms of hepatitis are tiredness, vomiting, and loss of weight.
▪ The tablets help relieve cold symptoms.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At each visit, symptoms and side effects were noted and blood was taken for haematological and biochemical screening tests.
▪ At the medical products firm we mentioned earlier, symptoms of denial were rife.
▪ His symptoms worsened over the next two days and he returned to the nutritionist.
▪ Just knowing that one is participating in a study of the menstrual cycle can increase reports of negative symptoms by 80 percent.
▪ She had no symptoms, except that no monthly showing of blood took place.
▪ The symptoms that he had put up with for 20 years now became a real problem.
▪ Usually, high blood pressure has no symptoms, so many people have it for years without knowing.