asymptomatic
IPA: eɪsɪmptʌmˈætɪk
noun
- A patient who exhibits no symptoms of disease.
adjective
- (pathology) Not exhibiting any symptoms of disease, as for example in subclinical cases.
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Examples of "asymptomatic" in Sentences
- "Since I'm what they call asymptomatic, I don't really have too many symptoms.
- USPSTF and ACS both recommend against screening for ovarian cancer in asymptomatic women.
- The St Mary's group found what they called asymptomatic neurocognitive impairment (ANCI) in 14 patients (31\%).
- My Dr and her partners do not recommend routine pelvic/rectal exams - they are considered unnecessary in asymptomatic women and in fact, can be harmful.
- There are several days throughout the year when the virus reactivates yet causes no symptoms (called asymptomatic shedding, viral shedding, or asymptomatic reactivation).
- PSA screening looking for prostate cancer in the asymptomatic is probably a bad idea all the way around, as discussed on the NYT’s op-ed page today by the person who developed the PSA test decades ago.
- Silent MS - also sometimes described as asymptomatic MS or even undiagnosed MS, this is to me one of the most interesting types; it is a case of multiple sclerosis that is only diagnosed after an autopsy shows the characteristic plaques in the white matter of the brain.
- Past studies have shown that patients who have so-called asymptomatic Alzheimer's disease - those who have the hallmark brain lesions and plaques of Alzheimer's disease but no memory loss - also have enlarged neurons, compared with patients who suffer cognitive impairment.
- "We noticed that the neurons in this group of people are larger and we also know that the same group of people we call asymptomatic also had higher language skills during their 20s," said study author Dr. Diego Iacono, a research fellow in neuropathology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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