self-limited disease

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self-lim·it·ed dis·ease

a disease process that resolves spontaneously with or without specific treatment.

self-limiting condition

An illness or condition which will either resolve on its own or which has no long-term harmful effect on a person’s health.

self-lim·it·ed dis·ease

(self-limi-tĕd di-zēz)

Condition that resolves spontaneously with or without specific treatment.

self-lim·it·ed dis·ease

(self-limi-tĕd di-zēz)

Disease process that resolves spontaneously with or without specific treatment.

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"I can live with a low negative predictive value so long as the sensitivity is good, because this is often a self-limited disease."

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It may be that many of our patients have self-limited disease. If we expand mental health services to reach patients with self-limited disease, we will see an increase in expenditures, but no improvement in outcomes.

Mental Health Research in Primary Care - What's Next?: Response to "A Systematic Review of Brief Psychological Therapies in Primary Health Care"

His change in approach was also abetted by a growing appreciation that acute bacterial sinusitis is usually a benign, self-limited disease in the majority of patients.

Shorter Sinusitis Treatment

First described in 1801 by a British physician, HSP is a common and usually self-limited disease for which our understanding has advanced greatly over the past 2 centuries, yet for which many important questions regarding pathophysiology remain unanswered.

Henoch-Schonlein purpura

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is a self-limited disease characterized by necrotizing lymphadenitis [1].