Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
symptômes de froid
English translation:
feeling cold
French term
Canada
International Multicultural Diversified
Native in: English (Variants: British, UK, US, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand) 
Works in: French to English
symptômes de froid
According to you does this mean that the patient is feeling cold or does it mean that he has caught a cold?
It's a point in a list and it's in quotation marks in the text.
Thanks
Joanna
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Margarida Martins Costelha
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| 4 +2 | cold symptoms |
liz askew
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| 3 +2 | chill symptoms |
Rachel Fell
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| 5 | symptoms of feeling cold |
Margaret Field
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| 4 | symptoms suggested by feeling cold |
Drmanu49
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| symptoms vs signs |
B D Finch
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Mar 23, 2017 23:21: Yolanda Broad changed "Term asked" from "\\\"symptômes de froid\\\"" to "symptômes de froid"
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Proposed translations
Portugal
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Native in: English (Variant: UK) , Portuguese (Variant: European/Portugal)
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese, French to English, and 7 more.
feeling cold
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philgoddard
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Thank you, Phil
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Drmanu49
: I believe it is symptoms suggested by feeling cold
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liz askew
: and why would this be an adverse event?
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It might be or it might not! But why are you assuming it is when there is no context?
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B D Finch
: I think this is the most likely meaning.
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Thank you
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Margaret Field
: not catching a cold, but more context would help
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Thank you
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cold symptoms
A head cold occurs when cold symptoms are more focused around the head and facial area. This can result in inflammation in the ears and sinsuses, leading to ...
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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9T4TAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA750&lp...
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Margarida Martins Costelha
: A cold in your sense would be 'rhume', as I explained in my answer
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ormiston
: but it sounds like "prendre froid". our trusty Beechams powders describes it as such
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Marie-Pascale Wersinger
: coming down with a cold
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symptoms suggested by feeling cold
www.santemagazine.fr › Médecines
31 juil. 2015 - Avoir toujours froid peut être l'un des symptômes de l'hypothyroïdie, la chute du taux d'hormones thyroïdiennes. Le métabolisme ralentit et ...
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B D Finch
: Conditions, not symptoms would be suggested by feeling cold. Feeling cold IS a symptom.
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Exactly a symptom of a condition but NOT a condition in itself.
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Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, Italian to English, and 4 more.
chill symptoms
Anthrax Immunization Program: Hearing Before the Committee on ...
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0756718090
Christopher Shays - 1999 - Medical
My final comments pertain to the adverse reaction rate. ... more importantly that fever and chill symptoms have been now recategorized as severe local reactions ...
The patient was admitted to the Kaiser-Franz-Josef Spital of Vienna, Austria to obtain an experimental therapy in the frame of a phase I clinical trial of intravenous catumaxomab and was the first to receive the dosage of 10μg of catumaxomab as 6-hour infusion under premedication with 1g of paracetamol to suppress treatment related chill symptoms.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5053709/
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Corinne Maska
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Thank you Corinne :-)
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writeaway
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Thank you writeaway :-)
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symptoms of feeling cold
Reference comments
symptoms vs signs
"Any objective evidence of a disease, like a skin rash, is a sign and can be recognized by the doctor, family members, and the patient.
However, stomachache, lower-back pain, and fatigue, for example, are symptoms and can only be felt by the patient; they are subjective - others only know about it if the patient tells them."
allnurses.com › Nursing Student › General Student Discussions21 Oct 2008 - What is the difference between signs and symptoms? ... sign - an objective finding as perceived by an examiner. . .many signs accompany symptoms. symptom - a subjective indication of a disease or a change in condition as perceived by the patient. . .many symptoms are accompanied by ...
Discussion
I unfortunately can't give you much more information for confidentiality reasons and because the whole thing is not even a paragraph long.
This is an email sent by the physician to the pharmaceutical company about a patient who suffered from these side effects. These side effects are in bullet point and the one I have issues with is top of the list.
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Perhaps even some of the background story might help as in the heading you have indicates "serious adverse events", which seems a little ominous.
I'm going to be areal pain and ask for other info too, such as who is the writer of the text, the intended reader and the purpose for which the text is being written.
The quotation marks could simply be an indication that the writer is reporting verbatim what the patient reported.
In any event, the French word for the common cold is not "froid".
The two other symptoms are: colored expectorations and lymph nodes behind ears.
It's bizarre that the author put it in quotations?
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Could you post some context please? An extract of the original containing the term which is posing a problem is usually the best way to get useful suggestions.