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Sign
Name
Aaron sign
Abadie's sign
A
A
A
A
Abadie's symptom
Abderhalden reaction
Abelin reaction
Addis count
Adie pupil
Adson's sign
Alexander's law
Gustav Alexander
A
A
A
Allen's test
Apgar score
Apley grind test
A
A
Asboe-Hansen sign
Gustav Asboe-Hansen
AschheimZondek test
Aschoff body
Ashby technique
Winifred Ashby
Auberger (patient)
A
A
A
A
Auenbrugger's sign
Auer rods
Auspitz's sign
Austin Flint murmur
Babinski sign
Joseph Babinski
Bainbridge reflex
Balbiani rings
Edouard-Grard Balbiani
B
B
Ballance's sign
Bancroft's sign
Brny test
Robert Brny
Barlow's maneuver
Bart hemoglobin
Barts Hospital
BastianBruns sign
Battle's sign
Beau's lines
Beck's triad
Becker's sign
Beevor's sign
BekhterevJacobsohn reflex
B
B
BekhterevMendel reflex
Bence Jones protein
B
B
Benedict solution
Berger wave (rhythm)
BezoldJarisch reflex
Bing's sign
B
B
Biot's respiration
Bitot's spots
Camille Biot
Pierre Bitt
B
B
B
B
B
Bjerrum scotoma
Blumberg sign
Boas' point
Boas' sign
Bodansky unit
Boston's sign
Leonard N. Boston
Bouchard's nodes
Charles-Joseph Bouchard
BrachtWachter bodies
Branham's sign
Henry Branham
Brewer infarcts
Brissaud's reflex
douard Brissaud
B
B
Broca aphasia
Paul Broca
B
B
B
BrodieTrendelenburg test
Brudziski neck sign
Brudziski cheek sign
Jzef Brudziski
B
B
Brudziski reflex
Bruit de Roger
Jzef Brudziski
Henri-Louis Roger
Bruns ataxia
Ludwig Bruns
Bruns nystagmus
Ludwig Bruns
B
B
Brushfield spots
Burton line
Thomas Brushfield
Henry Burton
Cabot rings
Richard Cabot
Caput medusae
Medusa
C
C
Cardarelli's sign
Carey Coombs murmur
Antonio Cardarelli
Carey Coombs
Carnett's sign
Carvallo's sign
Casal collar
Gaspar Casal
Casoni test
Tomaso Casoni
C
C
C
C
Chaddock reflex
Chadwick sign
Charcot's triad
Charcot's triad
CharcotLeyden crystals
CheyneStokes respiration
ChurchillCope reflex
Chvostek's sign
Frantiek Chvostek
Claybrook sign
Edwin Claybrook
Clutton's joints
C
C
Codman's triangle
Comby sign
Ernest Codman
Jules Comby
C
C
Comolli's sign
Coombs test
Antonio Comolli
Robin Coombs
Cornell's sign
Corrigan pulse
Councilman body
Courvoisier's law
C
C
Crichton-Browne sign
Crowe sign
C
C
Cullen's sign
Curschmann spirals
Thomas S. Cullen
Heinrich Curschmann
Cushing's triad
Harvey Cushing
Dagher Maneuver
Nabil Dagher
DahlnFuchs nodules
Dahl's sign
K.V. Dahl
Dalrymple sign
John Dalrymple
D
D
Dance's sign
Darier's sign
D
D
Dawson's fingers
De Musset's sign
DennieMorgan fold
Destot's sign
DixHallpike test
Dhle bodies
D
D
Doi's sign
Dunphy sign
Hitoka Doi
Osborne Joby Dunphy
Duroziez's sign
E
E
Elschnig spots
Epstein's pearls
Anton Elschnig
Alois Epstein
Ewart's sign
William Ewart
Faget sign
Jean-Charles Faget
F
F
Finkelstein's test
Forchheimer spots
Harry Finkelstein
Frederick Forchheimer
Fothergill's sign
John Fothergill
F
F
Fox's sign
Frank's sign
Friedreich's sign
Nikolaus Friedreich
Froment's sign
Jules Froment
Gallavardin phenomenon
GamnaFavre bodies
Louis Gallavardin
Carlos Gamna,
Maurice Favre
GandyGamna nodules
Charles Gandy,
Carlos Gamna
Garrod's pads
Archibald Garrod
G
G
Gerhardt's sign
Goetz sign
Gonda's sign
Goodell's sign
William Goodell
Goodsall's rule
Gordon's sign
Alfred Gordon
Gottron's papules
Gowers' sign
Graham Steell
G
G
Gunn's sign
Hamman's sign
Louis Hamman
Hampton's hump
Hampton's line
Hannington-Kiff sign
John G. Hannington-Kiff
Harrison's groove
Edward Harrison
Hatchcock's sign
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Heberden's node
William Heberden
Hegar's sign
Hess test
H
H
H
Hildreth's sign
Hippocratic face
Hippocratic fingers
DH Hildreth
Hippocrates
Hippocrates
Hirschberg test
Julius Hirschberg
Hoffmann's sign
Johann Hoffmann
H
H
Hollenhorst plaque
Homans' sign
Robert Hollenhorst
John Homans
HowshipRomberg sign
Hutchinson's freckle
Hutchinson's pupil
Hutchinson's sign
Hutchinson's teeth[4]
Hutchinson's triad
J
J
Janeway lesion
Jendrassik maneuver
Joffroy's sign
Alexis Joffroy
J
J
Jolly's test
Jones criteria
Friedrich Jolly
T. Duckett Jones
Kanavel's sign
K
K
KayserFleischer ring
Kehr's sign
Allen B. Kanavel
Bernhard Kayser,
Bruno Fleischer
Hans Kehr
K
K
Kelly's sign
Kerley lines
K
K
K
K
Kernig's sign
Koebner's phenomenon
Koeppe's nodules
Koplik's spots
Woldemar Kernig
Heinrich Koebner
Leonhard Koeppe
Henry Koplik
Korotkoff sounds
Nikolai Korotkov
Kussmaul breathing[6]
Adolph Kussmaul
Kussmaul's sign
Adolph Kussmaul
Kveim test
L
L
L
L
Lachman maneuver
Ladin's sign
Lancisi's sign
Larrey's sign
John Lachman
?
Giovanni Maria Lancisi
Dominique Larrey
Lasgue's sign
Charles Lasgue
Leopold's maneuver
LeserTrlat sign
Levine's sign
Samuel A. Levine
Lhermitte's sign
Jean Lhermitte
L
L
L
L
Liebermeister's rule
Lisch nodule
Lisker's sign
Litten's sign
Lombard effect
tienne Lombard
Louvel's sign
Lowenberg's sign
MacDonald triad
John M. MacDonald
Macewen's sign
Magnan's sign
Valentin Magnan
Mantoux test
Charles Mantoux
M
M
Mayne's sign
McBurney's point
Charles McBurney
M
M
McConnell's sign
McDonald's sign
M.V. McConnell
?
M
M
McMurray test
MeansLerman scratch
Mees' lines
R.A. Mees
Mellignhoff's sign
Mellinghoff
Mentzer index
Moniz sign
Mbius sign
Muehrcke's lines
Robert C. Muehrcke
Mulder's sign
Jacob D. Mulder
Mller's maneuver
Mller's sign
John B. Murphy
M
M
N
Murphy's sign
Myerson's sign
Naegele's rule
John B. Murphy
Abraham Myerson
Franz Karl Naegele
Nardi test
George Nardi
N
O
Nikolsky's sign
O'Brien's test
Pyotr Nikolsky
?
O
O
O'Donoghue's triad
Oliver's sign
D. O'Donoghue
William Silver Oliver
Oppenheim's sign
Hermann Oppenheim
Ortolani test
Marino Ortolani
Osborn wave
Osler's node
Osler's sign
Palla's sign
Pastia's sign
Patrick's test
Peabody's sign
C.N. Peabody
Pemberton's sign
Hugh Pemberton
Phalen's maneuver
George S. Phalen
Piskaek's sign
Ludwig Piskaek
P
P
Plummer's nail
Pratt's sign
Queckenstedt's maneuver
Quincke's sign
R
R
Reynolds' pentad
Riesman's sign
B.M. Reynolds
David Riesman
Rigler's sign[7]
Rinne test
Romaa's sign
Cecilio Romaa
Romberg test
Rose's sign
Rosenbach's test
Ottomar Rosenbach
Rossolimo's sign
Roth's spots
Moritz Roth
Rovsing's sign
RumpelLeede sign
Russell's sign
Gerald Russell
Salus's sign
Robert Salus
S
S
Schaeffer's sign
Schamroth's window test
Max Schaeffer
Leo Schamroth
Schiller's test
Walter Schiller
Schilling test
Robert F. Schilling
Schirmer's test
Otto Schirmer
Schober test
Paul Schober
Sherren's triangle
James Sherren
S
S
S
Shone's complex
Siegrist streaks
Simmonds' test
John D. Shone
August Siegrist
Franklin Adin Simmonds
SimsHuhner test
Spurling's test
Stellwag's sign
Still's murmur
Stransky's sign
Stroop test
Strmpell's sign
Adolph Strmpell
Terry's nails
R. Terry
Terry-Thomas sign
Terry-Thomas
Thomas test
Throckmorton's reflex
T
T
T
Tinel's sign
Todd's paresis
Traube's sign
Jules Tinel
Robert Bentley Todd
Ludwig Traube
Trendelenburg's sign
Friedrich Trendelenburg
Troisier's sign
Uhthoff's phenomenon
Wilhelm Uhthoff
Unterberger test
Siegfried Unterberger
Virchow's node
Rudolf Virchow
Virchow's triad
Rudolf Virchow
V
V
W
W
Wada test
Waddell's signs
Waddell's triad
J.P. Waddell
W
W
W
W
W
W
Whipple's triad
Wickham's striae
Widal test
Allen Whipple
Louis Frdric Wickham
Georges-Fernand Widal
Winterbottom's sign
W
W
WolffParkinsonWhite triad
Wright's maneuver
Yeoman's test
Yergason's test
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Descriptor
epigastric pain with pressure on McBurney's point
levator palpebrae superioris spasm
absence of pain on Achilles tendon pressure
serum reaction;obsolete
presence of arsenical anti-syphilitic;obsolete
quantitative cells and casts in 24hr. urine
dilated pupil, poorly reactive but with normal near
accommodation
obliteration of radial pulse with manoeuvres
describes nystagmus in vestibular lesions
tests for presence of palmar ulnar-radial anastomosis (palmar
arch)
assess health of newborn
manoeuvres to elicit knee pain
light-near dissociation
lobulation of neutrophil nuclei
extension of a blister to adjacent unblistered skin when
pressed
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foci of interstitial inflammatiuon in the myocardium and
elsewhere
agglutination test for erythrocyte survival
Aua antigen
bulging epigastrium
cytoplasmic inclusions in myeloblasts
punctate bleeding when scales are scraped
mid-diastolic rumble heard at apex
expressive aphasia
superficial vein is percussed proximally; if impulse is felt over
vein distally, valvular incompetence is present
pressure over symphisis pubis elicits knee, hip flexion and leg
abduction
passive flexion of knee to abdomen elicits flexion of
contralateral hip and knee
loud pansystolic murmur
difficulty moving feet in contact with floor, tendency to fall
backwards
hip and knee fully flexed, extension of knee elicits pain and/or
opisthotonus
granulomatous nodules at pupillary margin
Korotkov described 5 sounds. Only the first (the onset of audible sound,and corresponding to systolic p
laboured deep breathing with normal or reduced frequency
increased jugular distension on inspiration
intradermal injection of lymphatic extract from known sufferer;
obsolete
modified anterior drawer test with knee in less flexion
softening of uterus; similar to Hegar's sign
giant v-wave in seen in jugular vein
pain in sacroiliac area on sitting down on hard chair
better known as straight leg raise test
determination of fetal lie
sudden onset of multiple pruritic seborrheic keratoses
patient clenches fist over chest when asked to describe pain
electrical sensation down the back and into limbs with neck
flexion or extension
echocardiography finding of akinesia of the mid-free wall of the right ventricle but normal motion of th
knee extended, valgus stress applied, leg rotated produces palpable or audible click
systolic heart murmur similar to pericardial rub
transverse white lines across the nails
coughing or Valsalve accentuates the venous markings of an
erysipeloid rash
differentiates iron deficiency anaemia from beta thalassaemia
Improvement in cognitive function after withdrawal of CSF during lumbar puncture used to confirm dia
calf muscle spasm when raising the affected leg with the foot
extended
arms elevated over head elicits facial plethora, distended neck
veins and inspiratory stridor
3060 seconds of full forced flexion of wrist elicits symptoms
palpable lateral bulge at tubal-uterine junction; present at 78
weeks
onycholysis especially of ring and little fingers
pain elicited by compression of posterior calf
bilateral jugular vein pressure during lumbar puncture causes sudden rise in CSF pressure
visible pulsation in ungual capillary bed
Charcot's triad + hypotension and altered mental state
bruit over globe of the eye
gas outlines both mucosal and serosal surfaces of bowel
comparison of air conduction to bone conduction differentiates
sensorineural from conductive deafness
painless unilateral periorbital swelling
pre-excitation on ECG