We define a local syndrome as 'a widely recognized prototypical ailment that encompasses a fuzzy set of associations coalescing around one or more core cultural symbols' (cf. Nichter [ 9]).
The medical community may not recognize his ailment, but it's hard to brush off claims from a guy whose torso looks lightly cooked.
Experts have said that lacking a formal advisory from the city, doctors may not have had sufficient information to recognize the ailments connected to 9/11, or to prescribe the proper treatment.
Well-documented in other parts of Latin America [ 30, 41, 42], the locally recognized symptoms for these ailments were somewhat vague and overlapping, including trembling and shaking hands, turning pale, and fluctuating blood pressure.
While mental health issues, severe reflux and certain increasingly deadly breathing ailments are widely recognized as stemming from 9/11 service, other problems are more difficult for establishing causality.
"There's nothing crackpot about the winter blues," said Michael Terman, a psychiatrist at Columbia University who has studied the ailment since the National Institute of Mental Health recognized it in the 1980s.
Pattern recognition, as Zuckerberg and LeCun pointed out Thursday, is complex enough now for driverless cars to exist, or for tech to recognize what certain ailments look like.
As a holistic discipline, yoga recognizes that physical ailments -- such as back pain and heart disease -- also have emotional and spiritual components.
Around 5000 people live in this peculiar ecological system and they use medicinal plants as curatives or palliatives of health problems because the plants are recognized as a traditional way to treat ailments and diseases [ 8].
Unlike Lyme disease, which quickly leapfrogged across the country, babesiosis is spreading slowly through the Northeast and Upper Midwest, where it is increasingly recognized as the cause of a flulike summer ailment.
