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Objective:To standardize the clinical information of the nose.Methods:Based on the 1034 descriptions on the clinical manifestation of nose in the database of the clinical records of Chinese medicine in the past dynasties,according to the hypothesis of symptomatic unit,the symptomatic units,the second-level clinical characteristics and the limiting factors were summarized in the paper.Results:All the descriptions on the clinical manifestation of nose include 11 symptomatic units,7 second-level clinical characteristics and 1 limiting factor.Conclusion:Comparing with the symptoms in the authoritative works of Chinese medicine,cold-feeling of the nose while breathing was the new fi nding,nares flaring and ozena recorded in the authoritative works were the second-level clinical characteristics of polypnea and rhinorrhoea respectively.Nose diseases,such as nasal eczema,were usually diagnosed by several symptomatic units,so they were not symptomatic units.
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Objective To introduce a proposal that can standardize the clinical information of urine manifestation in Chinese medicine.Methods A hypothesis of symptomatic units was proposed in this paper,herein,the attribute,name and definition of the symptomatic units of urine manifestations in the clinical records of Chinese medicine in the past dynasties were summarized according to the stipulation of logic classification and denomination of a scientific term.Results The 23 symptomatic units,2 bounds and their assembly can express 3867 descriptions on the clinical manifestation of urine.Conclusion The symptomatic unit is a feasible hypothesis that can simplify the clinical information of Chinese medicine.The attribute extraction,denomination and definition may become one of the effective procedures to standardize the clinical information of Chinese medicine.