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Know meaning of term Symptom and its total 12 Types

Symptom is altered condition of human body from its normal healthy state to diseased state which is not recognizable by anyone, whether it is attendant of patient, doctor who examines him or her and it is not even discoverable on various tests, cannot be measured with various tests. 
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They cannot be seen, felt, heard by anyone, nor measured with any instrument. It is only patient who can feel them, sense them and grade them in terms of mild, severe or moderate. Nobody can recognize them except patient.

So, it was regarding what does term “symptom” mean and now, comes, what are various types into which symptoms are classified. Now, various types into which symptoms are classified or in other words, various types which symptom has are as follow-

1) Objective symptoms.

2) Subjective symptoms.

3) Concomitant symptoms.

4) Particular symptom.

5) General symptom.

6) Pathological symptom.

7) Physiological symptom.

8) Common symptom.

9) Uncommon symptom.

10) Medicinal symptom.

11) Diseased symptom.

12) Accessory symptom.

Do- Sign and Symptom mean Same thing or different?

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