These are two terms that get bandied about quite often, and I might add incorrectly for the most part. I even recently received an email telling me that according to dictionary.com , they are synonymous. Well contrary to popular belief, not everything you read on the internet is true, especially when it comes to health care [and health care reform I would add]. Manifestations and symptoms, although related, are not the same thing. Symptoms are something that alert you to a problem, i.e. night sweats, bleeding that won't stop, fatigue, bone fractures [in the case of Multiple Myeloma], and manifestations enable the doctor to reach a proper diagnosis. Even more simply put, manifestations can be measured, symptoms cannot. For example, Increased bone fractures are a symptom of Multiple Myeloma, resulting from decreased bone density, which is confirmed through additional blood tests looking for abnormal amounts of plasma cells, and certain particular antibodies of Multiple Myeloma. Low p...
The ramblings of a mantle cell lymphoma and bypass surgery survivor, and then some