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A representation of a quality of a patient that is (1) recorded by a clinician because the quality is hypothesized to be of clinical significance and (2) refers to qualities obtaining in the patient prior to their becoming detectable in a clinical history taking or physical examination.

http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/Disease_and_Diagnosis.pdf

Albert Goldfain