| Eponyms in category: Signs and symptoms |
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| Aaron's sign |
| A referred pain or feeling of distress in region of heart or stomach upon continuous firm pressure over McBurney's point, in appendicitis.
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| Abadie's symptom (Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie) |
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| Albarran's sign |
| A sign of cancer in the pelvis of the kidney (pelvis renalis. |
| Allis' sign |
| A clinical sign in fracture of the neck of the femur in which the trochanter rides up and relaxes the fascia lata so that a finger can be sunk deeply between the great trochanter and the iliac crest. |
| Also known as Abadie's sign of tabes dorsalis (Abadie's symptom (Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie)) |
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| Amoss' sign |
| A sign of meningitis.
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| Aufrecht's sign |
| Diminished breathing sound heard just above the jugular fossa, in cases of tracheal stenosis. |
| Auspitz' symptom |
| A charactristic, point-shaped bleeding after slight scratching or curetting of a psoriasis scale. Suggests psoriasis, but is not specific. |
| Axhausen's sign |
| Signe d'ostéochondrite disséquante du genou: le genou étant en flexion forcée, il existe une douleur à a la pression entre le bord de la rotule et la face axiale du condyle interne.
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| Babinski's reflex (Babinski's sign I) |
| A pathological reflex where the great toe extends and flexes toward the top of the foot and the other toes fan out when the sole of the foot is firmly stroked. |
| Babinski's sign I |
| A pathological reflex where the great toe extends and flexes toward the top of the foot and the other toes fan out when the sole of the foot is firmly stroked. |
| Babinski's sign III |
| Lost or diminished Achilles tendon reflex in sciatica.
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| Babinski’s test (Babinski's sign I) |
| A pathological reflex where the great toe extends and flexes toward the top of the foot and the other toes fan out when the sole of the foot is firmly stroked. |
| Ballance's sign |
| A trias of clinical signs of rupture of the spleen in abdominal trauma |
| Bamberger-Pins-Ewart sign (Ewart's sign) |
| Typically localized pulmonary auscultation- and percussion phenomenon in large pericardial effusion, |
| Bard's symptom |
| Clinical sign that makes it possible to distinguish between acquired and congenital nystagmus. |
| Battle's sign |
| Sign suggesting fracture of the base of the skull. |
| Bekhterev-Mendel reflex (Mendel's reflex) |
| Tapping the dorsum of foot (area of n Os cuboideum and Os cuneiforme) normally causes extension of 2nd-5th toes. A pyramidal lesion is characteristic by flexion. |
| Bing's reflex or sign |
| Pathological reflex in spastic symptom-complexes. |
| Blumberg's sign |
| The occurrence of a sharp acute pain when the examiner presses his or her hand over McBurney’s point and then releases the hand pressure suddenly. |
| Branham's bradycardia (Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham sign) |
| A circulatory phenomenon observed in angioma racemosum of the extremities. |
| Branham's sign (Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham sign) |
| A circulatory phenomenon observed in angioma racemosum of the extremities. |
| Brudziñski's cheek phenomenon |
| A sign og meningitis. |
| Brudziñski's neck sign |
| A sign in meningitis. |
| Brudziñski's reflex |
| A sign in meningitis. |
| Brudziñski's symphyseal sign |
| A sign in meningitis. |
| Brudzinski's symptom (Brudziñski's neck sign) |
| A sign in meningitis. |
| Bryant's sign (John Henry Bryant) |
| A sign in ruptured aortic aneurysm. |
| Bryant's sign (Sir Thomas Bryant) |
| A sign in dislocation of the shoulder. |
| Canga's bead symptom |
| In patients with genital tuberculosis, hysterosalpingography may reveal an irregular appearance of uterus, and rosary like nodular structures in tuba uterina. |
| Chrobak's symptom |
| A probe sinks deep into necrotic tissue, particularly seen in cervix-carcinoma. |
| Codman's sign |
| A sign seen in the absence of rotator cuff function or when there is a rupture of the supraspinatus tendon. |
| Codman's triangle |
| Radiological sign in osteosarcoma. |
| Corrigan's line (Corrigan's sign) |
| A clinical sign pathogonomic of chronic copper poisoning. |
| Corrigan's sign |
| A clinical sign pathogonomic of chronic copper poisoning. |
| Cullen's sign |
| Bluish discoloration of the periumbilical skin (periumbilical cyanosis and grid cyanosis) due to subcutaneous intraperitoneal haemorrhage. |
| Cullen-Hellendall sign (Cullen's sign) |
| Bluish discoloration of the periumbilical skin (periumbilical cyanosis and grid cyanosis) due to subcutaneous intraperitoneal haemorrhage. |
| Dalrymple's sign |
| Widened palpebral tissue or lid spasm seen in thyrotoxicosis (Basedow's disease), causing abnormal wideness of the palpebral fissure. |
| Darier's sign |
| Stroking of the skin results in erythema and oedema in mastocytosis (urticaria pigmentosa).
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| Erb's signs or symptoms |
| 1. Loss of the knee jerk as an early sign of tabes dorsalis; 2. Absent dilatation of pupil by painful irritation of the skin in tabes dorsalis; 3. Increased electrical irritability of motor nerves in tetany. |
| Ewart's sign |
| Typically localized pulmonary auscultation- and percussion phenomenon in large pericardial effusion, |
| Fèvre's sign |
| Roentgenological and clinical-operative sign of intestinal invagination in infants. |
| Fèvre-Pellerin sign (Fèvre's sign) |
| Roentgenological and clinical-operative sign of intestinal invagination in infants. |
| Filatov's sign |
| Only French description available: Contraste entre la pâleur des ailes du nez, des lèvres et du menton, et la rougeur intense des joues, dans l'éruption de la scarlatine. |
| Finsterer's sign |
| A paradoxical slowing of the pulse seen in severe intraperitoneal bleeding.
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| Fischer's syndrome (Louis Fischer) |
| Obsolete term for an auscultatory diagnosis in tuberculosis of the bronchial glands in children. |
| Fischer’s sign (Fischer's syndrome (Louis Fischer)) |
| Obsolete term for an auscultatory diagnosis in tuberculosis of the bronchial glands in children. |
| Fox's sign |
| A sign in haemorrhagic pancreatitis. |
| Gilbert's sign |
| Patient's with liver cirrhosis pass more urine when fasting than after a meal.
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| Gorlin's sign |
| Ability to touch the tip of the nose with the tongue in patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
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| Gower's manoeuvre (Gowers' sign) |
| A clinical sign of muscular dystrophy in childhood. |
| Gowers' sign |
| A clinical sign of muscular dystrophy in childhood. |
| Gradenigo-Struycken triangle |
| The Gradenigo-Struycken triangle gives information on the lowering of the amplitude. |
| Griesinger's sign |
| Swelling, painful on pressure, over the mastoid process due to thrombosis of the transverse sinus.
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| Hamman's crunch (Hamman's sign) |
| A crunching, rasping sound, synchronous with heartbeat, heard over the precordium in spontaneous mediastinal emphysema. |
| Hamman's murmur (Hamman's sign) |
| A crunching, rasping sound, synchronous with heartbeat, heard over the precordium in spontaneous mediastinal emphysema. |
| Hamman's sign |
| A crunching, rasping sound, synchronous with heartbeat, heard over the precordium in spontaneous mediastinal emphysema. |
| Hayem and Sonneburg sign |
| Sanguineous leucocytosis observed in appendicitis with localised periotinitis. |
| Heimlich's sign |
| Grasping one’s throat with the thumb and index finger to signal that the individual is choking. |
| Hess' test (Rumpel-Konchalevskii-Leede phenomenon or sign) |
| The appearance of minute subcutaneous haemorrhages below the area at which a bandage is applied not too tightly for 10 minutes upon the upper arm. |
| Homans' sign |
| An early sign in venous thrombosis of the deep veins of the calf. |
| Jaccoud's sign |
| Prominence of the aorta in the suprastenal notch, seen in aortic dilatation. |
| Joffroy's reflex |
| Gluteal phenomenon in ischias. |
| Joffroy's sign I |
| Sign for exophthalmic goiter; Basedowoid eye symptom. |
| Joffroy's sign II |
| Cessation of twitch in chorea electrica when there is pressure on the n. facialis.
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| Joffroy's sign III |
| Lacking ability to make simple arithmetic sum up. An early sign in lunatics, caused by syphilis in the central nervous system.
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| Kernig's sign |
| A sign in acute meningitis. |
| Kernig’s phenomenon (Kernig's sign) |
| A sign in acute meningitis. |
| Kernig’s symptom (Kernig's sign) |
| A sign in acute meningitis. |
| Kirmisson's sign |
| Transverse striated ecchymoses at the elbow seen in fractures of the humerus with displacement of the higher fragment. |
| Kocher's sign |
| Eyelid phenomenon in hyperthyreosis and Basedow’s disease. |
| Laënnec-Hamman symptom (Hamman's sign) |
| A crunching, rasping sound, synchronous with heartbeat, heard over the precordium in spontaneous mediastinal emphysema. |
| Laënnec-Müller-von Bergmann-Hamman symptom (Hamman's sign) |
| A crunching, rasping sound, synchronous with heartbeat, heard over the precordium in spontaneous mediastinal emphysema. |
| Leichtenstern's sign |
| A phenomenon reckoned among the indirect signs of meningitis. |
| Leichtenstern’s meningitis sign (Leichtenstern's sign) |
| A phenomenon reckoned among the indirect signs of meningitis. |
| Leichtenstern’s phenomenon (Leichtenstern's sign) |
| A phenomenon reckoned among the indirect signs of meningitis. |
| Leichtenstern’s phenomenon in meningitis cerebrospinalis epidemica (Leichtenstern's sign) |
| A phenomenon reckoned among the indirect signs of meningitis. |
| Lhermitte's sign |
| Flexing of the neck produces electric shock-like sensations that extend down the spine and shoot into the limbs. |
| Magnan's sign |
| A crawling, illusory sensation of a foreign body under the skin, seen in cases of cocaine addiction.
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| Marfan's sign |
| A sign in children sick with fever. A red triangle on a furred tongue indicates typhus.
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| Marfan's symptom |
| Rachitic epiphyseal swelling of the Malleolus medialis of the lower leg. |
| McBurney's point |
| A point midway between the umbilicus and the right anteriorsuperior iliac spine. A guide to the position of the appendix, determined by the pressure of one finger. |
| McBurney's sign |
| Maximum tenderness and rigidity over McBurney’s point. May be indicative of appendicitis. |
| Mendel's Aurikularisphänomen |
| Clinical and quite reliable sign for base meningitis (German: Basismeningitis).
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| Mendel's reflex |
| Tapping the dorsum of foot (area of n Os cuboideum and Os cuneiforme) normally causes extension of 2nd-5th toes. A pyramidal lesion is characteristic by flexion. |
| Mendel's sign (Mendel's Aurikularisphänomen) |
| Clinical and quite reliable sign for base meningitis (German: Basismeningitis).
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| Mendel's sign |
| Percussion pain in the epigastrium occurring in ulcus ventriculi or duodeni.
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| Mendel-Bekhterev reflex (Mendel's reflex) |
| Tapping the dorsum of foot (area of n Os cuboideum and Os cuneiforme) normally causes extension of 2nd-5th toes. A pyramidal lesion is characteristic by flexion. |
| Mendel-von Bekhterev phenomenon (Mendel's reflex) |
| Tapping the dorsum of foot (area of n Os cuboideum and Os cuneiforme) normally causes extension of 2nd-5th toes. A pyramidal lesion is characteristic by flexion. |
| Mendel-von Bekhterev reflex (Mendel's reflex) |
| Tapping the dorsum of foot (area of n Os cuboideum and Os cuneiforme) normally causes extension of 2nd-5th toes. A pyramidal lesion is characteristic by flexion. |
| Minor's sign |
| Clinical sign for differential diagnosis between lumbago and ischias. |
| Murphy's kidney punch (Murphy's punch) |
| Punch tenderness at the costo-vertebral angle in cases of perinephritic abscess.
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| Murphy's punch |
| Punch tenderness at the costo-vertebral angle in cases of perinephritic abscess.
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| Murphy's sign |
| A sign of inflammation of the gallbladder. |
| Murphy's sign II (Murphy's punch) |
| Punch tenderness at the costo-vertebral angle in cases of perinephritic abscess.
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| Murphy's test (Murphy's punch) |
| Punch tenderness at the costo-vertebral angle in cases of perinephritic abscess.
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| Müller's sign (Friedrich von Müller) |
| Systolic pulsations of the uvula, accompanied by redness and swelling of the velum palati and tonsils in aortic insufficiency/aortic regurgitation.
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| Nicoladoni's phenomenon (Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham sign) |
| A circulatory phenomenon observed in angioma racemosum of the extremities. |
| Nicoladoni's sign (Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham sign) |
| A circulatory phenomenon observed in angioma racemosum of the extremities. |
| Nicoladoni's symptom (Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham sign) |
| A circulatory phenomenon observed in angioma racemosum of the extremities. |
| Nicoladoni-Branham sign (Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham sign) |
| A circulatory phenomenon observed in angioma racemosum of the extremities. |
| Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham bradycardia phenomenon (Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham sign) |
| A circulatory phenomenon observed in angioma racemosum of the extremities. |
| Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham phenomenon (Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham sign) |
| A circulatory phenomenon observed in angioma racemosum of the extremities. |
| Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham sign |
| A circulatory phenomenon observed in angioma racemosum of the extremities. |
| Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham-Wigdorowitsch phenomenon (Nicoladoni-Israel-Branham sign) |
| A circulatory phenomenon observed in angioma racemosum of the extremities. |
| Oliver-Cardarelli phenomenon (Oliver-Cardarelli sign (William Silver Oliver)) |
| Pulsation of the larynx to one side synchronous with ventricular systole. |
| Oliver-Cardarelli sign (William Silver Oliver) |
| Pulsation of the larynx to one side synchronous with ventricular systole. |
| Oliver-Cardarelli symptom (Oliver-Cardarelli sign (William Silver Oliver)) |
| Pulsation of the larynx to one side synchronous with ventricular systole. |
| Oliver-Cardarelli-Olshausen sign (Oliver-Cardarelli sign (William Silver Oliver)) |
| Pulsation of the larynx to one side synchronous with ventricular systole. |
| Oliver’s sign (Oliver-Cardarelli sign (William Silver Oliver)) |
| Pulsation of the larynx to one side synchronous with ventricular systole. |
| Phalen's manoeuvre |
| A manoeuvre done to check for carpal tunnel abnormality. |
| Phalen's position (Phalen's manoeuvre) |
| A manoeuvre done to check for carpal tunnel abnormality. |
| Phalen's sign (Phalen's manoeuvre) |
| A manoeuvre done to check for carpal tunnel abnormality. |
| Phalen's test (Phalen's manoeuvre) |
| A manoeuvre done to check for carpal tunnel abnormality. |
| Pins' sign |
| In pericarditis, the disappearance of symptoms of pleurisy and loss of pain when patient leans forward to the knee-chest position. |
| Pins' syndrome (Ewart's sign) |
| Typically localized pulmonary auscultation- and percussion phenomenon in large pericardial effusion, |
| Ramsay’s sign (Kocher's sign) |
| Eyelid phenomenon in hyperthyreosis and Basedow’s disease. |
| Romberg's sign (Moritz Heinrich Romberg) |
| A sign of static ataxia in tabes dorsalis. |
| Rumpel-Konchalevskii-Leede phenomenon or sign |
| The appearance of minute subcutaneous haemorrhages below the area at which a bandage is applied not too tightly for 10 minutes upon the upper arm. |
| Rumpel-Leede test (Rumpel-Konchalevskii-Leede phenomenon or sign) |
| The appearance of minute subcutaneous haemorrhages below the area at which a bandage is applied not too tightly for 10 minutes upon the upper arm. |
| Rössle's sign |
| Plantar hypersensitivity. A sign in thrombosis.
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| Schridde's sign |
| Sign in status thymo-lymphaticus.
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| Sherren's triangle |
| An area of skin hyperaesthesia found in acute appendicitis. |
| Siegert's sign |
| Short and incurving terminal phalanges of the little fingers in Down's syndrome. |
| Signe de Bechterew-Mendel (French) (Mendel's reflex) |
| Tapping the dorsum of foot (area of n Os cuboideum and Os cuneiforme) normally causes extension of 2nd-5th toes. A pyramidal lesion is characteristic by flexion. |
| Smith-Fischer bronchial gland tuberculosis (Fischer's syndrome (Louis Fischer)) |
| Obsolete term for an auscultatory diagnosis in tuberculosis of the bronchial glands in children. |
| Souques's triad |
| Neurological signs |
| Spegelberg's sign |
| A diagnostic sign for early recognition of collum carcinoma of the uterus with the mucosa still intact. |
| Spiegelberg's sign of carcinoma (Spegelberg's sign) |
| A diagnostic sign for early recognition of collum carcinoma of the uterus with the mucosa still intact. |
| Spurling's manoeuvre and sign |
| Axial compression of the spine and rotation to the ipsilateral side of symptoms reproduces/worsens cervical radiculopathy. |
| Stewart-Holmes sign |
| Rebound phenomenon seen in cerebellar disease. |
| Stiller's sign |
| Floating tenth rib. |
| Stillers Kostalstigma (German) (Stiller's sign) |
| Floating tenth rib. |
| Stiller’s rib (Stiller's sign) |
| Floating tenth rib. |
| Strümpell's sign I |
| Tibialis phenomenon; a symptom in lesions of the pyramidal tract. |
| Strümpell's sign II |
| A pyramidal sign occurring in spastic syndrome. |
| Strümpell's sign III |
| A pyramidal sign occurring in spastic syndrome. |
| Strümpell's sign IV |
| A phenomenon occurring in spastic syndrome. |
| Strümpell’s reflex or sign (Strümpell's sign I) |
| Tibialis phenomenon; a symptom in lesions of the pyramidal tract. |
| Tillaux' sign |
| The presence of a resonant area between the pubic bone and a tumour is indicative of a tumour being mesenteric.
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| Turner-Cullen symptom (Cullen's sign) |
| Bluish discoloration of the periumbilical skin (periumbilical cyanosis and grid cyanosis) due to subcutaneous intraperitoneal haemorrhage. |
| Von Baeyer's sign |
| A phenomenon particularly seen in destroyed sense of depth in tabes dorsalis. |
| von Strümpell's tibialis sign (Strümpell's sign I) |
| Tibialis phenomenon; a symptom in lesions of the pyramidal tract. |
| von Strümpell’s phenomenon (Strümpell's sign I) |
| Tibialis phenomenon; a symptom in lesions of the pyramidal tract. |
| von Strümpell’s phenomenon (Strümpell's sign III) |
| A pyramidal sign occurring in spastic syndrome. |
| von Strümpell’s pronation phenomenon (Strümpell's sign IV) |
| A phenomenon occurring in spastic syndrome. |
| von Strümpell’s radialis sign (Strümpell's sign II) |
| A pyramidal sign occurring in spastic syndrome. |
| von Strümpell’s sign I (Strümpell's sign I) |
| Tibialis phenomenon; a symptom in lesions of the pyramidal tract. |
| von Strümpell’s toe phenomenon (Strümpell's sign III) |
| A pyramidal sign occurring in spastic syndrome. |
| Wartenberg's sign |
| Neurological sign |
| Warthin's sign |
| Exaggeration of pulmonary sounds in acute pericarditis.
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| Wegner's sign |
| The boundary line between the epiphysis and the diaphysis of the femur normally runs a straight course. In osteochondritis syphilitica it runs a wavy or jagged line. |
| Wilms' symptom |
| Symptom in obstruction of the intestine. |
| Wilson's pronator sign |
| Extension of the arms above the head will result in the palms facing outward in Sydenham chorea due to pronation of the forearms.
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| Wöfler's sign |
| German description: Zeichen bei Sanduhrmagen. |
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