symptomatically
Adverb
Meaning
by symptoms
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It is recommended that high blood pressure, tachycardia (rapid heart-beat), and hyperthermia, if present, are treated symptomatically, and that low blood pressure is treated initially with fluids and then with pressors if necessary.
What distinguishes each disease symptomatically (as opposed to the underlying pathology) is not any particular (pathognomonic) symptom or symptoms, but a specific pattern of symptoms.
Many patients can treat problems symptomatically.
Some adverse effects can be treated symptomatically by using adjunct medications such as anticholinergics (antimuscarinics).
An additional 24 patients have either tested positive for viral antibodies or been symptomatically diagnosed with the virus.
"The second infection was symptomatically more severe than the first," the authors of the study write.