List of eponymous medical signs
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Eponymous medical signs are medical signs that are named after a person or persons, usually the physicians who first described them, but occasionally named after a famous patient with the signs.
Contents: | Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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[edit] A
- Aaron sign — Charles Dettie Aaron
- Abadie's sign — Jean Marie Charles Abadie
- Abadie's symptom — Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie
- Abderhalden reaction — Emil Abderhalden
- Abelin reaction — Isaak Abelin
- Abel's test — Dietrich Abels
- Addis count — Thomas Addis
- Adie pupil — William John Adie
- Adson's sign — Alfred Adson
- Alexander's law
- Allen's test — Edgar Van Nuys Allen
- Apley grind test — Alan Graham Apley
- Argyll Robertson pupils — Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson
- Arneth count — Josef Arneth
- Ascheim-Zondek test — Selmar Ascheim, Bernhard Zondek (synd/1834 at Who Named It)
- Aschoff body — Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff
- Ashby techniques — Winifred Ashby
- Auberger's blood group — Auberger (patient)
- Auenbrugger's sign — Josef Leopold Auenbrugger (synd/284 at Who Named It)
- Auer rods — John Auer
- Auspitz's sign — Heinrich Auspitz
- Austin Flint murmur — Austin Flint
- Australian antigen — Aboriginal patient
[edit] B
- Babinski sign — Joseph Babinski
- Baghdad boil — Baghdad
- Bainbridge reflex — Francis Arthur Bainbridge
- Bairnsdale ulcer — Bairnsdale
- Balbiani rings — Edouard-Gérard Balbiani
- Ballance's sign — Charles Alfred Ballance
- Bárány test — Robert Bárány
- Barlow's maneuver — Thomas Barlow (medicine)
- Bart hemoglobin — Barts Hospital
- Bastian-Bruns sign — Henry Charlton Bastian, Ludwig Bruns
- Battle's sign — William Henry Battle
- Beau's lines — Joseph Honoré Simon Beau
- Beck's triad — Claude Schaeffer Beck
- Becker's sign — Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker
- Beevor's sign — Charles Edward Beevor
- Bekhterev-Mendel reflex — Vladimir Bekhterev, Kurt Mendel
- Bence Jones protein — Henry Bence Jones
- Benedict solution — Stanley Rossiter Benedict
- Berger rhythm — Hans Berger
- Bezold-Jarisch reflex — Albert von Bezold, Adolf Jarisch
- Bielschowsky's tilt — Alfred Bielschowsky
- Bing's sign — Paul Robert Bing
- Biot's respiration — C. Biot
- Bitot's spots — Pierre Bitot
- Bjerrum scotoma — Jannik Peterson Bjerrum
- Blumberg sign — Jacob Moritz Blumberg
- Boas' sign — Ismar Isidor Boas
- Bodansky unit — Meyer Bodansky
- Bombay blood group — Bombay
- Boston's sign — L.N. Boston
- Bouchard's nodes — Charles-Joseph Bouchard
- Bracht-Wachter bodies — Erich Bracht, H. Wächter
- Branham's sign — Henry Branham
- Braxton Hicks contraction — John Braxton Hicks
- Brewer infarcts — George Emerson Brewer
- Broadbent inverted sign — William Broadbent
- Brissaud's reflex — Édouard Brissaud
- Broadbent law — William Broadbent
- Broadbent sign — William Broadbent
- Broca aphasia — Paul Broca
- Brodie-Trendelenburg test — Benjamin Collins Brodie, Friedrich Trendelenburg
- Brudzinski sign — Jósef Brudziñski
- Bruit de Roger — Henri-Louis Roger
- Bruns ataxia — Ludwig Bruns
- Brushfield spots — Thomas Brushfield
- Burton line — Henry Burton
[edit] C
- Cabot rings — Richard Cabot
- Caput Medusae — Medusa
- Cardarelli's sign
- Carey Coombs murmur — Carey Coombs
- Carnett's test — John Carnett
- Carvallo sign — José Carvallo
- Casal collar — Gaspar Casal
- Casoni test — Tommaso Casoni
- Celsus signs of inflammation — Aulus Cornelius Celsus
- Chaddock reflex — Charles Gilbert Chaddock
- Chadwick sign — James Read Chadwick
- Charcot's triad — Jean-Martin Charcot
- Charcot-Leyden crystals — Jean-Martin Charcot, Ernst Viktor von Leyden
- Cheyne-Stokes respiration — John Cheyne, William Stokes
- Churchill-Cope reflex — Edward Delos Churchill, Oliver Cope
- Chvostek's sign — František Chvostek
- Clark sign — Alonzo Clark
- Claybrook sign — Edwin Claybrook
- Clutton's joints — Henry Hugh Clutton
- Codman's triangle — Ernest Armory Codman
- Comby sign — Jules Comby
- Coombs test — Robin Coombs
- Coons fluorescent antibody method — Albert Coons
- Corrigan pulse — Dominic John Corrigan
- Councilman body — William Councilman
- Courvoisier's law — Ludwig Georg Courvoisier
- Crighton-Browne sign — James Crighton-Browne
- Crowe sign — Samuel Crowe
- Cruveilhier-Baumgarten bruit — Jean Cruveilhier, Paul Clemens von Baumgarten
- Cullen's sign — Thomas Cullen
- Curschmann spirals — Hans Curschmann
- Cushing's triad — Harvey Cushing
[edit] D
- Dahl's sign ([1])
- Dalrymple sign (synd/494 at Who Named It)
- Dance's sign (synd/3355 at Who Named It)
- Darier's sign
- Dawson's fingers ([2] [3])
- De Musset's sign
- Dennie's lines ([4])
- Destot's sign ([5])
- Dix-Hallpike test (synd/3615 at Who Named It)
- Döhle bodies
- Doi's sign ([6])
- Dunphy sign ([7])
- Duroziez's sign
[edit] E
- Elschnig spots — Anton Elschnig
- Epstein's pearls
- Ewart's sign
[edit] F
- facies Hippocratica
- Finkelstein's test
- Fordyce spots
- Forschimer spots
- Fothergill's sign
- Fox's sign
- Frank's sign
- Friedreich's sign
- Froment's sign
[edit] G
- Gallavardin dissociation
- Gandy-Gamma nodules
- Gerhard's sign
- Goetz sign
- Gond's maneuver
- Goodell's sign
- Goodsall's rule
- Gordon's maneuver
- Gottron's papules
- Gower's sign (Gower's maneuver) — William Richard Gowers
- Graefe's sign — Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht von Graefe
- Graham Steell murmur
- Grey Turner's sign
- Griffith's sign
- Grotton's lesions
- Gunn's sign
[edit] H
- Hamman's sign
- Hampton's hump
- Hannington-Kiff sign
- Harrison's groove
- Hatchcock's sign
- Heberden's node
- Hegar's sign
- Hess test
- Hill's sign
- Hippocratic face
- Hippocratic fingers
- Hirschberg test — test for strabismus
- Hoffman's sign
- Hollenhorst plaque
- Holmes-Adie syndrome
- Homan's sign
- Hoover’s sign
- Howship-Romberg sign
- Hutchinson freckle
- Hutchinson pupil
- Hutchinson's sign
- Hutchinson's teeth
[edit] J
- Janeway lesion — Theodore Caldwell Janeway
- Jendrassik maneuver
- Joffroy sign
- John Thomas sign
- Jolly test
- Jones criteria
[edit] K
- Kanavel's sign
- Kayser-Fleischer ring
- Kehr's sign
- Kelly's sign
- Kerley A lines, Kerley B lines, Kerley C lines (synd/3063 at Who Named It)
- Kernig sign (synd/2200 at Who Named It)
- Koebner's phenomenon
- Koeppe's nodules
- Koplik's spots
- Korotkoff sounds
- Kussmaul breathing a.k.a. Kussmaul's respiration
- Kussmaul's sign
- Kveim-Siltzbach test
[edit] L
- Lachman maneuver
- Ladin's sign
- Lancisi's sign
- Lasegue's sign
- Leopold's maneuver (synd/3225 at Who Named It)
- Leser-Trelat sign
- Levine's sign
- Lhermitte's sign — Jean Lhermitte
- Lisch nodules
- Lisker's sign
- Litten's sign (eMedicine)
- Louvel's sign
- Lowenberg's sign (ClevelandClinic)
[edit] M
- Macewen's sign
- Magnan's sign
- Marcus Gunn pupil
- Marie's sign
- Markle sign
- Mayne's sign
- McBurney's sign
- McConnell's sign
- McDonald's sign
- McMurray test
- Means-Lerman scratch
- Mees' lines
- Mentzer index
- Miller-Fisher test
- Möbius's sign
- Muehrckle's nails
- Mulder's sign
- Müller's maneuver
- Müller's sign
- Murphy's punch sign
- Murphy's sign
- Myerson's sign
[edit] N
[edit] O
- Oliver's sign
- Oppenheim's sign
- Ortolani's sign
- Osborn wave
- Osler's node
- Osler's sign
[edit] P
- Palla's sign
- Pastia's sign
- Patrick's test
- Pemberton's sign
- Phalen's maneuver
- Piskacek's sign
- Plummer's nail
- Pratt's sign
- Plummer-Vinson syndrome
[edit] Q
[edit] R
- Reynolds' pentad
- Riesman's sign
- Riggler's sign
- Rinne test
- Romana's sign
- Romberg test
- Rosenbach's sign
- Roth’s spots
- Rovsing's sign
- Rumpel-Leede sign
- Russell's sign
[edit] S
- Salus's sign
- Schafer's maneuver
- Schamroth's window test
- Schilling test
- Schirmer's test
- Schober test
- Shone's complex
- Siegrist streaks
- Sims-Huhner test
- Sister Mary Joseph sign (Sister Joseph Nodule)
- Spurling's test
- Stellwag's sign
- Still's murmur
- Stransky's sign
- Stroop test
- Strümpell's sign
- Susac syndrome
[edit] T
- Terry's nails
- Terry-Thomas's sign — Terry-Thomas
- Thompson's test
- Tinel's sign
- Todd's paresis
- Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
- Traube's sign
- Trendelenburg gait
- Trendelenburg's sign
- Trousseau's sign
[edit] U
[edit] V
- Virchow's triad
- Virchow-Robin spaces
- Volkmann's contracture
- Von Braun-Fernwalds sign
- Von Graefe sign
[edit] W
- Wada test
- Waddell's signs
- Watson's water hammer pulse
- Whipple's triad]
- Wickham's striae
- Widal test
- Winterbottom's sign
- Wolff-Parkinson-White triad
- Wright's maneuver