Manifesto (medicine)

The foreign word manifest ( Latin manifestus “palpable”, “clear”) is used in medicine with the meaning “clear” or “pronounced”, especially for symptoms that only appear or are clearly pronounced after a symptom-free latency or incubation period . The opposite of manifest is called latent (“hidden”) or inapparent (“not appearing”, “not visible”).

One speaks of the manifestation of a disease when symptoms appear that make the disease clearly recognizable.

Examples:

• manifest hypothyroidism
• manifest shock symptoms
• manifest liver cirrhosis
• manifest depression
• manifest ileus
• manifest iron deficiency
• manifest diabetes mellitus
• manifest delusion

See also

• Course of disease

literature

• Pschyrembel “Clinical Dictionary”, 260th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-11-017621-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Duden online: manifest
2. ↑ Duden online: latent and inapparent
3. ↑ Duden online: Manifestation

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