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• The symptoms which make a patient seek medical help in the first place are called the presenting symptoms.
• Many illnesses have the same symptoms.

  These symptoms are called non-specific.
• Health provider may listen to the person’s chest and hear wheezing.
• Wheezing on examination and evidence of poor airflow on spirometry are both signs of asthma
• They may also order a nasal swab to see whether a respiratory virus may be causing your symptoms.
• Remitting symptoms are those that have improved or completely gone away.
• Relapsing symptoms are at times worse, especially after a period of remission.
• A disease can be defined as a health condition that has a clearly defined reason behind it.
• A syndrome may produce a number of symptoms without an identifiable cause.
• Disorder – An illness that disrupts normal physical or mental functions.
• Anorexia nervosa - generally develops during adolescence or young adulthood and tends to affect more women than men. People with anorexia generally view themselves as overweight, even if they’re dangerously underweight.
• Bulimia nervosa  - an eating disorder involving distortion of body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight, in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self-induced vomiting.
• Binge eating - the consumption of large quantities of food in a short period of time, typically as part of an eating disorder.
• • Pica is the eating or craving of things that are not food: such as ice, dirt, soil, chalk, soap, paper, hair, cloth, wool, laundry detergent.
• Rumination disorder - is a feeding and eating disorder in which undigested food comes back up from a person’s stomach into his or her mouth (regurgitation). 
• • Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder is a type of eating disorder in which people eat only within an extremely narrow repertoire of foods.
• Stuttering refers to a speech disorder that interrupts the flow of speech. People who stutter can experience the following types of disruption.
• Repetitions occur when people involuntarily repeat sounds, vowels, or words.
• Blocks happen when people know what they want to say but have difficulty making the necessary speech sounds. Blocks may cause someone to feel as though their words are stuck.
• Prolongations refer to the stretching or drawing out of particular sounds or words.
• Developmental stuttering affects young children who are still learning speech and language skills. Genetic factors significantly increase a person’s likelihood of developing this type of stutter.
• Neurogenic stuttering occurs when damage to the brain prevents proper coordination between the different regions of the brain that play a role in speech.
• Apraxia is a general term referring to brain damage that impairs a person’s motor skills, and it can affect any part of the body.
• Apraxia of speech, or verbal apraxia, refers specifically to the impairment of motor skills that affect an individual’s ability to form the sounds of speech correctly, even when they know which words they want to say.
• Dysarthria occurs when damage to the brain causes muscle weakness in a person’s face, lips, tongue, throat, or chest.
• Diplopia is double vision.
• Dysphagia - difficulty or discomfort in swallowing.
• Dysphasia - impaired ability to understand or use the spoken word.
• Dyspnea  - shortness of breath.
• Dysuria - pain during urination, or difficulty urinating.
• The proprioceptive system provides information to your brain about your body’s position in relation to your environment.
• The vestibular system provides information through the inner ear that tells us about our head position and how (or if) we are moving.
• Calcaneus -  Heel
• Carpals - Wrist bones
• Clavicle - Collarbone
• Femur - Thigh bone
• Humerus - Upper arm bone
• Metacarpal - Hand bones
• Radius - Forearm bone on the thumb side
• Phalanges - Finger/toe bones