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 Eponyms in category: Methods -procedures -manoeuvres
 70 main and alternative entries found.
 
Abbott's method (Edville Gerhardt Abbott)
Gradual straightening of scoliosis by using a series of plaster jackets.
Amussat's method
Method for alleviating haemorrhages of the arteries.
Babinski's method
Method for eliciting the Achilles reflex.
Baccelli's method
A now abandoned method for treating tetanus with subcutaneous injections of carbolic acid. 1906.
Bailey's reposition
Reposition of radius fracture in four steps.
Balint's method
Method for treating epilepsy.
Bear's method
Emploi des asticots en application locale pour désinfecter et nettoyer les plaies septiques.
Campbell-Howell method
A procedure for determing the content of carbon dioxid (tension) in the mixed venous tissue in patients with diseases of the lungs.
Carrel-Dakin treatment
Method of wound irrigation in which the wound is intermittently irrigated with Dakin’s solution.
Cathelin's method
Epidural method.
Caviezel-Baillod procedure
Standardised procedure for determining the so-called running activity in animal experiments with mouse.
Cerletti and Bini method
Electric convulsion therapy.
Clauberg's method
A reliable biological method for demonstration and standardisation of progesteron.
Clauberg's test (Clauberg's method)
A reliable biological method for demonstration and standardisation of progesteron.
Credé's manoeuvre
Manipulation for early expelling of the placenta.
Credé's method
Method for emptying a flaccid bladder.
Credé's method (Credé's prophylaxis)
Prophylactic procedure for treatment of the eyes of the newborn with argentum nitricum (1% silver nitrate).
Credé's prophylaxis
Prophylactic procedure for treatment of the eyes of the newborn with argentum nitricum (1% silver nitrate).
Delbet's methods
An apparatus for assisted walking, treatment for fractures of the neck of the femur, and treatment for Dupuytren's fracture.
Dupuytren's bandaging
Metal splint bandaging for fixation of fractured bone in various position.
Eicken's method
Facilitation of hypopharyngoscopy.
Fritsch's manipulation
Manipulation for stilling an atonic bleeding during birth.
Gunn-Zavanelli-O'Leary manoeuvre (Zavanelli's manoeuvre)
Obstetrical manoeuvre sometimes used when the baby's head is born but the shoulders are stuck.
Heimlich's manoeuvre
First aid measure used in danger of suffocation for removing a foreign body from the trachea or pharynx, where it is preventing flow of air to the lungs.
Kocher manoeuvre (Kocher's method III)
Method for reducing dislocations of the shoulder.
Kocher's method I
A method for fixation of the uterus. Fundus uteri is fixated to the abdominal wall.
Kocher's method III
Method for reducing dislocations of the shoulder.
Korotkov's method
The auscultatory method of determining blood pressure.
Lachapelle’s manoeuvre (Mauriceau-Levret manipulation)
The classical method of assisted breech delivery. The after-coming head is delivered with the child resting on the physician's forearm.
Lannelongue's method
A method for determining the production of fibrous tissue for therapeutic purposes.
Lee and White method
Martin's manipulation
Manipulation to extract the aftercoming head in breech presentation.
Mauriceau-Levret manipulation
The classical method of assisted breech delivery. The after-coming head is delivered with the child resting on the physician's forearm.
Mauriceau-Levret-von Veit-Smellie manipulation (Mauriceau-Levret manipulation)
The classical method of assisted breech delivery. The after-coming head is delivered with the child resting on the physician's forearm.
Mauriceau-Smellie-Veit manoeuvre (Mauriceau-Levret manipulation)
The classical method of assisted breech delivery. The after-coming head is delivered with the child resting on the physician's forearm.
Mikulicz' tamponade (Mikulicz's pad)
Folded gauze pad for packing off the viscera in abdominal operations and used as sponge in general.
Mikulicz's drain
Drain formed by pushing a single layer of gauze into a cavity or wound, then packing with several layers of gauze as the original layer is pushed farther and farther into the defect.
Mikulicz's pad
Folded gauze pad for packing off the viscera in abdominal operations and used as sponge in general.
Naegeli-de Quervain-Stalder "Autotransplantationsmethode" (auto transplant method). (Naegeli-de Quervain-Stalder test)
A method for demonstrating cell-combined allergic antibodies.
Naegeli-de Quervain-Stalder test
A method for demonstrating cell-combined allergic antibodies.
Nelson-Somogyi method (Somogyi's method)
Dinitrosalicylic acid (DNS) method used to assay for the product sugars.
Olshausen's manipulation
Obstetrical manipulation.
Osler's manoeuvre
In pseudohypertension, the blood pressure as measured by the sphygmomanometer is artificially high because of arterial wall calcification. Osler's manoeuvre can detect this condition.
Perthes' method
A method for continuous aspiration of a pleuritic exudate.
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.
Politzer's method
Politzer's method of effecting permeability of the Eustachian tube.
Sahli's method II
Test for estimating the functional activity of the stomach.
Schweninger cure
A method of defatting/degreasing.
Sicard's method II
Sodium salicylate injections for the treatment of varicose veins.
Sicard’s method (Cathelin's method)
Epidural method.
Silvester's method
A now obsolete method of artificial respiration.
Smellie's manoeuvre (Mauriceau-Levret manipulation)
The classical method of assisted breech delivery. The after-coming head is delivered with the child resting on the physician's forearm.
Smellie's method (Mauriceau-Levret manipulation)
The classical method of assisted breech delivery. The after-coming head is delivered with the child resting on the physician's forearm.
Somogyi's method
Dinitrosalicylic acid (DNS) method used to assay for the product sugars.
Somogyi-Nelson method (Somogyi's method)
Dinitrosalicylic acid (DNS) method used to assay for the product sugars.
Spurling's manoeuvre and sign
Axial compression of the spine and rotation to the ipsilateral side of symptoms reproduces/worsens cervical radiculopathy.
Tillaux' manoeuvre
Manoeuvre intended to demonstrate the presence of a breast tumour adherent to the muscle pectoralis major.
Valsalva's manoeuvre
1: A method to test the patency of the Eustachian tube. 2: A technique to forcibly exhale against a closed glottis causing increased intrathoracic pressure and slowing of the pulse.
Valsalva's methods (Valsalva's manoeuvre)
1: A method to test the patency of the Eustachian tube. 2: A technique to forcibly exhale against a closed glottis causing increased intrathoracic pressure and slowing of the pulse.
Valsalva's test (Valsalva's manoeuvre)
1: A method to test the patency of the Eustachian tube. 2: A technique to forcibly exhale against a closed glottis causing increased intrathoracic pressure and slowing of the pulse.
Veit's manipulation (Mauriceau-Levret manipulation)
The classical method of assisted breech delivery. The after-coming head is delivered with the child resting on the physician's forearm.
Vidal's method
Scarification therapy for lupus.
Volhard's method
A method to determine the percentage of chloride in a sample.
von Veit-Smellie manipulation (Mauriceau-Levret manipulation)
The classical method of assisted breech delivery. The after-coming head is delivered with the child resting on the physician's forearm.
Waller's method
Use of the changes undergone by the distal portion after sectioning (Wallerian degeneration) to trace the pathway of a nerve fibre.
Wallerian method (Waller's method)
Use of the changes undergone by the distal portion after sectioning (Wallerian degeneration) to trace the pathway of a nerve fibre.
Zavanelli's manoeuvre
Obstetrical manoeuvre sometimes used when the baby's head is born but the shoulders are stuck.
 

 
 

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