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What is the name for the symptom of mishearing words?
Receptive aphasia is a type of aphasia in which patients have difficulty understanding ("receiving") words as opposed to difficulty speaking them. There are more than one possible etiology and it is ...
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Medical database with symptom frequencies
Nature Communications have such a database.
Human symptoms–disease network
XueZhong Zhou, Jörg Menche, Albert-László Barabási & Amitabh Sharma
Published: 26 June 2014
They count the number of ...
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How do you tell a brain-dead patient from a living one?
Once the decision to proceed with the brain death determination has been made, three conditions must be present: coma, the absence of brainstem reflexes, and apnea.
Coma should be evaluated by ...
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How common is tachycardia as a symptom of COVID-19?
Fever is a common symptom of COVID-19. Fever is commonly associated with tachycardia, as they are both part of the sympathetic response to illness.
For example:
Karjalainen, J., & Viitasalo, M. (...
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Acute symptoms from radon gas exposure
Answer
Overview
To summarise, even when radon gas accumulates at what we consider high levels, it is still a relatively low amount of ionising radiation compared to other events, partly because of the ...
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Is forgetting certain spellings a sign of Alzheimer's?
There are four cognitive symptom categories for Alzheimer's disease: aphasia, amnesia, apraxia, agnosia. These are broad categories that our brains handle somewhat separately. People frequently do ...
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How to note symptoms before visiting a doctor
It‘s all about algorithms
What you have done with the OPQPRST is a great start, but to save yourself even more trouble, there is one more algorithm which can help you:
SAMPLER
Standing for
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Degree of correlation between viral load and symptom severity in Covid-19?
It appears to be more nuanced than just high viral load equates to more severe disease. We know that there are case reports of children with high viral loads yet were largely asymptomatic. It may ...
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Is it possible to get Covid-19 and have 0 symptoms along the complete journey and hence cure by yourself without knowing?
Yes, it is possible to have no symptoms and be infected, various sources, e. g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32179137.
As for testing after 'clearing the infection', this would be what a ...
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Is there a technical term for the phenomenon known as "brain zaps"?
Short answer: No. There is no technical term for "brain zaps."
"Antidepressant discontinuation syndrome" accurately names the cause of brain zaps, but brain zaps are only one of many symptoms of ...
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Database with diseases and symptoms?
There's an App call Ada. It's only available for iOS. It's an IA based bot that ask you about your symptoms and gives you a diagnostic. It was pretty accurate with some regular illnesses. It's much ...
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Early signs of cocaine addiction
Some signs of addiction are enlarged pupils, increased alertness and energy, loss of interest in food and sleep, increased talkativeness, rapid mood changes, increased heart rate, nasal congestion. ...
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What is the definition of Suicidal Ideation?
Thoughts about wanting to die or killing oneself do constitute suicidal ideation.
Ideation is defined as
the process of forming ideas or images.
So that applied to suicide or wanting to die = ...
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How to note symptoms before visiting a doctor
Is your issue that your forget to mention your [stomach pain, rash, sleeplessness] or that you forget where it was, how much it hurt, etc? The sorts of things you have in your question would appear ...
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If someone catches COVID-19 in a country where the number of deaths and new infections are slowing, would their symptoms be milder?
There are about 8 common strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in circulation. It appears to be mutating slowly based on phylogenetic analyses and each mutation appears to be the same in terms of clinical ...
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Why is monocular diplopia a symptom of astigmatism in some cases?
Diplopia is not one of the more common symptoms of astigmatism, however it is certainly one of the possible manifestations. In general diplopia (double vision) is categorized as either binocular (you ...
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Medical database with symptom frequencies
What you're looking for is used by AI or Bayesian networks for online diagnosis. These databases are commercially sensitive and likely only accessible by API rather than raw data. For example, ...
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What are the special medications to treat Covid-19?
There are no specific proven drug treatments for Covid-19 disease but quite a few claims based on very limited experience which is why the WHO is arranging a mega trial called SOLIDARITY to test 4 ...
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Is it possible to get Covid-19 and have 0 symptoms along the complete journey and hence cure by yourself without knowing?
From {1}:
In COVID-19, The University of Padua, Veneto Region and the Red Cross tested the populationof Vò, Italy, 3300 people, to establish the natural history of the virus, the transmission ...
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What are the special medications to treat Covid-19?
https://www.genengnews.com/a-lists/how-to-conquer-coronavirus-top-35-treatments-in-development/ has a list of 35 treatments being considered / in development.
A new survey by Genetic Engineering &...
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What are the side effects of habitual cocaine usage, particularly the visually noticeable ones?
Cocaine is a highly addictive substance. What starts off as seemingly harmless experimentation can quickly develop into a potentially life-threatening addiction with devastating personal, professional,...
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Are most normal human beings capable of controlling laughter?
Yes, it's possible to control your laughter. There are several methods of controlling your laughter or laughing without anyone being hurt in the process. Such as
Think of something sad and ...
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How is myocarditis diagnosed?
Diagnosis of myocarditis
To diagnose myocarditis, your doctor may conduct a physical examination, and discuss your medical history and any signs or symptoms you may have. If your doctor suspects ...
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Database with diseases and symptoms?
There are quite some symptom checkers available - this one seems to perform well in benchmarks and allows free text input: https://www.symptoma.com/
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