In
medicine
Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, and Health promotion ...
, a presentation is the appearance in a patient of illness or disease—or
signs
Signs may refer to:
* ''Signs'' (2002 film), a 2002 film by M. Night Shyamalan
* ''Signs'' (TV series) (Polish: ''Znaki'') is a 2018 Polish-language television series
* ''Signs'' (journal), a journal of women's studies
*Signs (band), an American ...
or
symptoms
Signs and symptoms are the observed or detectable signs, and experienced symptoms of an illness, injury, or condition. A sign for example may be a higher or lower temperature than normal, raised or lowered blood pressure or an abnormality showi ...
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 born specifies which 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 identified as a cephalic, br ...
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Merriam Webster Medical Dictionaryfor presenting and related terms
Medical terminology