The nature of a sign, its functions, distinctive features of a sign situation in clinical diagnostics, and also various aspects of transpersonal communications are investigated. Objective indications such as signs, symptoms, and their verbal denotations are considered that are necessary to translate diagnostic information from the level of signals to the level of a message by extraction their meaning during their understanding.
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Translated from Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz, No. 5, pp. 60–70, September–October 2009.
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Dolgopolov, I.N. Communication process in clinical diagnostics: the semiotic approach. Cybern Syst Anal 45, 723–731 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10559-009-9135-z
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