health scare
Worrying symptom episode
A health scare is an event that causes sudden worry about one's physical condition—a symptom, diagnosis, or test result that suggests serious illness.
The term often implies the concern turned out to be unfounded or less severe than feared: After a health scare last year, he started exercising regularly.
Health scare also describes widespread public alarm about disease outbreaks or contaminated products: the bird flu health scare of 2005.
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- symptomsIndicators of disease
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- racing heartAbnormally rapid heartbeat
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
doctor · test results · anxiety · emergency · chest pain · lump · screening · biopsy · waiting room · waiting game · dread · prognosis · clean bill · ambulance · shortness of breath · cancer · heart attack · fainting
- stressorsemergency, financial stress, work stress, deadlines, job interview
- midlifemidlife crisis, empty nest, empty nester, forties, fifties
- Awkward Topicsawkward silence, TMI, oversharing, taboo subject
- wake-up callsalarm, alarm clock, morning call, rooster crow, snooze alarm
health scareclean bill of health
Official statement of soundness
all clear · good news · perfect health · relief · false alarm
health scareclean bill of health
Official statement of soundness
all-clear · false alarm · full recovery · remission · terminal diagnosis
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