asymptomatic
asymptomatic
Definition
asymp·to·matic (ā′simp tə ma′tik)
adjective
without symptoms
asymptomatic
Usage Examples
Preposition: at
- time: Patients with symptoms during pollution episodes will be compared with others who are asymptomatic at those times.
Preposition: in
- %: In fact, it is asymptomatic in 70 % of women and 50 % of men, so it often goes undiagnosed.
Modifies a noun
- bacteriuria: A large study is required to determine whether screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria continues to be relevant in improving pregnancy outcome.
- hyperuricaemia: Moreover, that risk may also be partly avoidable, in that three-quarters of these cases were taking allopurinol for asymptomatic hyperuricaemia.
- stenosis: Patients with either symptomatic or asymptomatic stenosis for whom surgery is advised are eligible.
- aneurysm: Incidence among men of asymptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm: estimates from 500 screen detected cases.
- carrier: The disorder is inherited with both parents being asymptomatic carriers.
- infection: Human cases can range from asymptomatic infection to eye infection.
Modifying Another Word
- usually: Fatty liver, present in 90 % of persistently heavy drinkers, is usually asymptomatic.
- completely: Since the patient was completely asymptomatic and stable, the decision was made to attempt conservative management.
- often: The focus group research showed that people did not know that many eye diseases are often asymptomatic.
- neurologically: The lack of impairment in neurologically asymptomatic patients suggests that the cognitive deficits are caused by direct cerebral involvement rather than hepatic encephalopathy.
- totally: In most of these women, fibroids are totally asymptomatic.
- generally: Individuals with sickle cell trait, although generally asymptomatic, can develop symptoms of sickling if exposed to very low oxygen pressures.
Used with adjective complement
- remain: Symptoms develop less readily than in MEN 1 with 40 % of people with the gene remaining asymptomatic at 70 years of age.
- become: However, once they develop lupus, quitting these drinks, will cause them to become asymptomatic.
- stay: The length of time people stay asymptomatic varies tremendously.
Preposition: until
- disease: Many people will also be asymptomatic until the disease is very advanced.
Preposition: for
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