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What it means
A person can have a disease and still be asymptomatic, as with early high blood pressure, early cancers or an infection they can pass on without feeling sick. Screening tests are meant to find disease in asymptomatic people.
At a glance
| Spanish | asintomático |
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Related terms
a-
A word beginning that means without, not or absence of; written an- before a vowel.
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