Symptoms indicate illness and are described as strong, mild, or weak. Cardinal symptoms lead to diagnosis while presenting symptoms cause patients to seek help. Symptoms include general indicators like loss of appetite or pain, as well as neurological issues like anxiety. Specific symptom areas are gastrointestinal (digestion), cardiovascular (heart), urological (urinary), pulmonary (lungs), and integumentary (skin). Symptoms are distinguished from signs like a rash or low blood cell count. A syndrome is a group of symptoms characterizing a disease.

1. Unit 6: Symptoms

2. Definition: Symptoms are the physical condition that indicate an illness, and are usually described as either strong, mild, or weak.

3. Types of symptoms

4. Cardinal symptoms the most important symptom that lead to a diagnosis.

5. Presenting symptoms the symptoms that cause a patient to seek medical help.

6. Classificationofsymptoms

7. Difference between symptoms and signs EX: Pain is a symptom, and a low blood cell count is a sign

8. Generalsymptoms such as loss of appetite, tiredness, pain, convulsion, and dizziness.

9. Neurological symptoms such as anxiety, insomnia (sleeplessness), and unsteadiness.

10. Ocular symptoms such as blurred vision, double vision, and loss of vision in one eye

11. Gastrointestinal symptoms such as bloating (to swell as if by filling with water or air), diarrhoea, vomiting, blood in stool, and indigestion (difficult or inadequate digestion).

12. Cardiovascularsymptoms such as chest pain and abnormal heart beat.

13. such as incontinence (unable to retain a bodily discharge), difficulty urinating, passing a lot of urine, and impotence (unable to copulate, sterile). Urological symptoms

14. Pulmonary symptoms such as coughing, hyperventilation (Excessive rate of respiration), chest pain, and shortness of breath.

15. Integumentary (skin) symptoms such as rashes, itching, blisters, and swellings.

16. vocabulary Syndrome(n) particular group of symptoms that appear together and characterize a particulardisease or disorder

17. Rash(n) is a change of the skin which affects its color .,appearance or texture Bruising(adj) cause a wound

18. Dizziness(adj) confused feeling that you are turning or spinning or that everything else is. Swallowed(v) take into the stomach via the throat as of food or drink.

19. Asthma(n) chronic disease – respiratory disorder . Pneumonia(n) is inflammation of the lungs)

20. Swollen(adj) Itchy (adj) shoulder(n) stitches(n)

21. Gangrene(n) death or rotting of body disease Leprosy(n) contagious bacterial disease characterized by loss of sensation

22. Rabies(n)

23. Weapons (n) graveyard (n)

24. lump (n) Constipation (n ) the condition of being unable to have a bowel movement easily .

25. Hypocohondriacs(n) sometimes referred to as health phobia . Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) condition that causes extreme tiredness

26. Prepared by NajwaSaadMoaz Sumayah Al Majnouni