The physical evidence of a disease process, what the health care provider can see, hear, feel or tap during a physical examination of a patient is called a ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Sign
A sign is objective what the health care provider observes through sight (inspection), hearing (auscultation), feeling (palpation), or tapping (percussion) when examining a patient. Sign comes from the Latin meaning mark. A symptom is subjective, what the patient (subject) is experiencing, a departure from normal health experienced by the patient.
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