### symptom | pain:

Unrelieved pain
* can induce suffering
  - lead to unemployment and decreased productivity
  - significantly diminish the patient's quality of life
* common cause of suffering.
* crisis in healthcare.
* has enormous physiological and psychological effects on patients
  - negative physical and psychological consequences
* increases suffering and the burden of having cancer.
* is itself a stimulant, which overwhelms any depressive effects of narcotics.
* major health care problem in the United States.
* public health crisis in the United States.

Untreated pain
* can cause anxiety , irritability, depression , and exhaustion can slow healing.
* causes anxiety, depression, irritability and exhaustion and can slow healing.
* leads to many cancer suicides.

### symptom:

Palpitation
* Some palpitations are normal after exercise, emotional upsets, or stress
  - have no known cause at all
* are a symptom described as the sensation of having an irregular heart beat
  - of aortic regurgitation
  - common and often normal
  - palpitations, but some are normal and others indicate heart disease
  - the sensation of a rapidly or irregularly beating heart
  - usually due to extra heart beats
* can be very troublesome to some individuals
  - refer to a fast heart rate, an irregular heart rate, skipped beats or extra beats
* happen to almost everyone at some time in their life.
* is medical conditions.
* means a feeling of a pounding heartbeat.
* occur when the heart beats irregularly.
* refers to an awareness of the heart beating.

### symptom | palpitation:

Heart palpitation
* Most heart palpitations are infrequent and only last a few seconds.
* are often minor and self-correcting.

### symptom:

Pancreatitis
* are infection
  - inflammation
* can be acute or chronic
  - deadly
  - fatal
  - life-threatening
  - destroy the pancreas and create a lack of insulin
  - either be acute or chronic
* can happen again
  - all at once or over time
  - when a gallstone passes down the bile duct, irritating the pancreas
* causes digestive upset and, in severe cases, shock and death.
* is extremely painful and can be fatal.
* is hard to definitively diagnose in cats
* is inflammation of the pancreas and can be a very unpleasant and serious illness
  - more common in dogs on long term cortisone therapy
  - sometimes fatal in animals and humans, and can lead to diabetes
  - usually a result of excess alcohol ingestion
  - when the pancreas becomes inflamed or damaged
* occurs when the pancreas becomes inflamed.
* primarily affects the portion of the pancreas that produces digestive enzymes.

### symptom | pancreatitis:

Acute pancreatitis
* can also result from dietary indiscretion
  - cause death
* causes little or no permanent damage to the pancreas.
* comes on suddenly, and can vary in severity from mild to life-threatening.
* condition demanding immediate medical attention.
* is often fatal
  - rare in cats
* known risk factor.
* means that symptoms develop suddenly.
* medical emergency, and patients can die from it.
* occurs as one sudden episode.
* refers to an acute inflammation that resolves both clinically and histologically.

### symptom | pancreatitis:

Chronic pancreatitis
* can lead to diabetes, inability to digest food, or cancer of the pancreas.
* involves a progressive destruction of the pancreas.
* is confirmed by x-ray tests and other scans
  - different to acute pancreatitis
  - sometimes due to an inherited gene mutation
* long-standing inflammation of the pancreas.
* means ongoing pancreatitis in which there is permanent damage to the pancreas.
* much more persistent condition, and occurs more often in men than women.
* occurs more frequently in men
  - most commonly after one or more episodes of acute pancreatitis

Hereditary pancreatitis
* is caused by a mutation in the cationic trypsinogen gene.
* occurs in pockets throughout the world.