In
medicine
Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...
, a presentation is the appearance in a patient of illness or disease—or
signs or
symptoms
Signs and symptoms are diagnostic indications of an illness, injury, or condition.
Signs are objective and externally observable; symptoms are a person's reported subjective experiences.
A sign for example may be a higher or lower temperature ...
thereof—before a medical professional. In practice, one usually speaks of a patient as ''presenting'' with this or that. Examples include:
* "...Many depressed patients present with medical rather than psychiatric complaints, and those who present with medical complaints are twice as likely to be misdiagnosed as those who present with psychiatric complaints."
* "...In contrast, poisonings from heavy metal can be subtle and present with a slowly progressive course."
* "...Some patients present with small unobstructed kidneys, when the diagnosis is easy to miss."
* "...A total of 7,870,266 patients presented to a public hospital ED from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018."
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Presentation (obstetrics)
In obstetrics, the presentation of a fetus about to be Childbirth, born specifies which Human anatomy, anatomical part of the fetus is leading, that is, is closest to the pelvic inlet of the birth canal. According to the leading part, this is ide ...
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Merriam Webster Medical Dictionaryfor presenting and related terms
Medical terminology