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Symptoms

By Anne Asher, About.com

Updated: July 09, 2006

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Definition: Symptoms are subjective presentations of medical problems and diseases. Only the person with the disease can really know it is there.

Back pain is an example of a symptom.




Source:What is a Symptom? MedicineNet. Retrieved: June 18, 2006.

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