List of medical symptoms
Appearance
Medical symptoms refer to the manifestations or indications of a disease or condition, perceived and complained about by the patient.[1][2] Patients observe these symptoms and seek medical advice from healthcare professionals.
Because most people are not diagnostically trained or knowledgeable, they typically describe their symptoms in layman's terms, rather than using specific medical terminology. This list is not exhaustive.
Symptoms by presentation
[edit]My ... hurts
I feel:
- Chills
- Fever
- Paresthesia (numbness, tingling, electric tweaks)
- Light-headed
- Dizzy
- My mouth is dry
- Nauseated
- Sick
- Short of breath
- Sleepy
- Sweaty
- Thirsty
- Tired
- Weak
I can't:
- Breathe normally
- Hear normally:
- Move one side – arm and/or leg
- Defecate normally
- Urinate normally
- Remember normally
- See properly:
- Sleep normally
- Smell things normally
- Speak normally
- Excrete solid feces
- Stop scratching
- Stop sweating
- Swallow normally
- Taste properly
- Walk normally
- Write normally
Medical signs and symptoms
[edit]Where available, ICD-10 codes are listed. When codes are available both as a sign/symptom (R code) and as an underlying condition, the code for the sign is used.
When there is no symptoms for a disease that a patient has, the patient is said to be asymptomatic.
- General
- anorexia (R63.0)
- weight loss (R63.4)
- cachexia (R64)
- chills and shivering
- convulsions (R56)
- deformity
- discharge
- dizziness / Vertigo (R42)
- fatigue (R53)
- hypothermia (T68)
- jaundice (P58, P59, R17)
- muscle weakness (M62.8)
- pyrexia (R50)
- sweats
- swelling
- swollen or painful lymph node(s) (I88, L04, R59.1)
- weight gain (R63.5)
- anorexia (R63.0)
- Cardiovascular
- arrhythmia
- bradycardia (R00.1)
- chest pain (R07)
- claudication
- palpitations (R00.2)
- tachycardia (R00.0)
- Ear, Nose and Throat
- dry mouth (R68.2)
- epistaxis (R04.0)
- halitosis
- hearing loss
- nasal discharge
- otalgia (H92.0)
- otorrhea (H92.1)
- sore throat
- toothache
- tinnitus (H93.1)
- trismus
- Gastrointestinal
- abdominal pain (R10)
- bloating (R14)
- belching (R14)
- bleeding:
- Hematemesis
- blood in stool: melena (K92.1), hematochezia
- constipation (K59.0)
- diarrhea (A09, K58, K59.1)
- dysphagia (R13)
- dyspepsia (K30)
- fecal incontinence
- flatulence (R14)
- heartburn
- nausea (R11)
- odynophagia
- proctalgia fugax
- pyrosis (R12)
- Rectal tenesmus
- steatorrhea
- vomiting (R11)
- Integumentary
- Hair:
- nail:
- Skin:
- abrasion
- anasarca (R60.1)
- bleeding into the skin
- petechia
- purpura
- ecchymosis and bruising (Sx0 (x=0 through 9))
- blister (T14.0)
- edema (R60)
- itching (L29)
- Janeway lesions and Osler's node
- laceration
- rash (R21)
- urticaria (L50)
- Neurological
- abnormal posturing
- acalculia
- agnosia
- alexia
- amnesia
- anomia
- anosognosia
- aphasia and apraxia
- apraxia
- ataxia
- cataplexy (G47.4)
- confusion
- dysarthria
- dysdiadochokinesia
- dysgraphia
- hallucination
- headache (R51)
- hypokinetic movement disorder:
- hyperkinetic movement disorder:
- insomnia (F51.0, G47.0)
- Lhermitte's sign (as if an electrical sensation shoots down back & into arms)
- loss of consciousness
- Syncope (medicine) (R55)
- neck stiffness
- opisthotonus
- paralysis and paresis
- paresthesia (R20.2)
- prosopagnosia
- somnolence (R40.0)
- Obstetric / Gynaecological
- Ocular
- amaurosis fugax (G45.3) and amaurosis
- blurred vision
- Dalrymple's sign
- double vision (H53.2)
- exophthalmos (H05.2)
- mydriasis/miosis (H570)
- nystagmus
- Psychiatric
- Pulmonary
- Rheumatologic
- Urologic
- dysuria (R30.0)
- hematospermia
- hematuria (R31)
- impotence (N48.4)
- polyuria (R35)
- retrograde ejaculation
- strangury
- urethral discharge
- urinary frequency (R35)
- urinary incontinence (R32)
- urinary retention
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Signs and symptoms: Definition, importance, and uses". www.medicalnewstoday.com. 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
- ^ "Checking the Symptom Checkers". National Institutes of Health (NIH). 14 August 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2021.