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Pentad ('group of 5') or pentade may refer to: Pentad (chord), a five-note chord; Pentad (computing), or pentade, a 5-bit group; a division of the solar term; Dramatistic pentad, Kenneth Burke's method of analyzing motivation; Medical pentad, a group of five signs or symptoms which characterise a specific medical condition; a tuple of length 5
A medical triad is a group of three signs or symptoms, the result of injury to three organs, which characterise a specific medical condition. The appearance of all three signs conjoined together in another patient, points to that the patient has the same medical condition, or diagnosis.
The dramatistic pentad forms the core structure of dramatism, a method for examining motivations that the renowned literary critic Kenneth Burke developed. Dramatism recommends the use of a metalinguistic approach to stories about human action that investigates the roles and uses of five rhetorical elements common to all narratives, each of which is related to a question.
A pentad is a five-note chord (Bailey 1991, 450). Under the latter definition, ...
Reynolds' pentad is a collection of signs and symptoms consistent with obstructive ascending cholangitis, a serious infection of the biliary tract. It is a combination of Charcot's triad ( right upper quadrant pain, jaundice , and fever ) with shock ( low blood pressure , tachycardia ) and an altered mental status . [ 1 ]
Each pentad consists of five, rarely six, days, and are mostly named after phenological (biological or botanical) phenomena corresponding to the pentad. Solar terms originated in China, then spread to Korea, Vietnam, and Japan, countries in the East Asian cultural sphere.
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In Yushui each pentad includes : in China, first pentad / 獺祭魚 : 'otters make offerings of fish'. As fish begin to swim upstream, they are hunted by otters, which are believed to offer the fish to heaven ; second pentad / 鴻雁來 : 'the wild geese arrive'. Wild geese begin to make their northward migration, following the onset of spring ;