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chief complaint, n the concern that brings a patient to seek therapeutic intervention. chief complaint the most apparent clinical sign in a patient's illness. Called also cardinal sign, key sign. |
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2) All of their patients had presented with a chief complaint of pain, and their diagnosis was based on palpation of the tonsillar fossa, a panoramic x-ray, and a positive lidocaine infiltration test. Routinely collected chief complaint information is transmitted electronically to the health department daily and analyzed for temporal and spatial aberrations. My chief complaint about this volume is that I did not have enough bookmarks to mark all the resources Enders made available to help us follow the compelling examples she unpacks with such care. |
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