complaint
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- noun
- /kəmˈpleɪnt/
- Specialized
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síntoma
- Approximately 10% of those with these complaints develop pseudomembranous colitis, which is caused by enterotoxin-producing Clostridium difficile.
- chief complaint
- presenting complaint
- patient complaints
And women also seem to be suffering more from gut complaints than men.
- And women also seem to be suffering more from gut complaints than men.
- And what happens is my complaint is my anxiety, my habit is social media.
- I hear a lot of complaints about brain fog with long COVID and brain fog generally.
- At that point, the most common complaint is difficulty sleeping is poor sleep.
Examples
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Tiredness is the primary complaint of more than 10% of people presenting in general practice.
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The most common complaints are upper limb disorders, eye problems, headaches, and stress or fatigue.
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After the session he had today, he felt very well, no complaints, no pain at all.
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People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no pleasure in talking to anybody.
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The most common physical complaint in our patients was mild edema, especially after prolonged standing.
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When a patient presents with a cough, it may not be just a trivial complaint.
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The company physician in Rustamiyah documented complaints consistent with traumatic brain injury.
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We evaluated a 59-year-old man whose chief complaint was progressive facial asymmetry of approximately 3 months' duration.
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Xerostomia is a subjective complaint, so it might not correlate with actual physical findings of oral dryness.
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Tiredness is the most frequent complaint among patients visiting the clinic.
Synonyms
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3.2
A feeling of physical pain or mental unease
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3.4
A small illness that often lasts a long time
Antonyms
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The condition of a person's body and mind, especially being free from illness or injury
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Morphology
Etymology
Complaint comes from an old French word complainte and the Latin root plangere, meaning 'to cry out in sorrow'. That's why a medical complaint is something you tell a doctor that troubles you — a reason to 'cry out' about pain or discomfort.