Can you use "presentations" here?

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I am not a doctor, but a quick perusal of medical terminology web resources has told me that presentations of a disease or condition can be symptoms or signs. A symptom is any subjective evidence of disease. In contrast, a sign is objective. So it seems that symptoms are a subset of presentations. Blood coming out a nostril, or gross blood in the stool are signs; they are apparent to the patient, physician, and others. Anxiety, low back pain, and fatigue are all symptoms; only the patient can perceive them. Thus, in the sentence quoted, nausea, stomachache and headache are experienced by the patient (not the doctor) and are thus symptoms. I imagine the symptom of nausea might be associated with the sign of vomiting. Thus I might write "The presentations of the disease include symptoms such as nausea, stomachache and headache."

Excellent!
Thank you Contrex.