| Letter | Sign | Name | Field | Associated conditions | External link
(if no internal link) | Descriptor
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| A | Aaron sign | Charles Dettie Aaron | surgery | appendicitis | |
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| A | Abadie's sign | Jean Marie Charles Abadie | | | |
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| A | Abadie's symptom | Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie | | | |
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| A | Abderhalden reaction | Emil Abderhalden | obstetrics | | |
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| A | Abelin reaction | Isaak Abelin | | | |
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| A | Addis count | Thomas Addis | | | (needed) |
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| A | Adie pupil | William John Adie | neurology | | |
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| A | Adson's sign | Alfred Adson | | | |
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| A | Alexander's law | ? | | | |
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| A | Allen's test | Edgar Van Nuys Allen | vascular surgery | arterial supply of the hand | |
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| A | Apley grind test | Alan Graham Apley | | | |
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| A | Argyll Robertson pupils | Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson | neurology | | |
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| A | Arneth count | Josef Arneth | | | |
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| A | Aschheim-Zondek test | Selmar Aschheim, Bernhard Zondek | | | synd/1834 at Who Named It |
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| A | Aschoff body | Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff | | | |
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| A | Ashby techniques | Winifred Ashby | | | (needed) |
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| A | Auberger's blood group | Auberger (patient) | | | (needed) |
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| A | Auenbrugger's sign | Josef Leopold Auenbrugger | cardiology | pericardial effusion | synd/284 at Who Named It |
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| A | Auer rods | John Auer | hematology | acute myeloid leukemia | |
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| A | Auspitz's sign | Heinrich Auspitz | | | |
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| A | Austin Flint murmur | Austin Flint | cardiology | aortic regurgitation | |
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| A | Australian antigen | Aboriginal patient | | | (needed) |
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| B | Babinski sign | Joseph Babinski | neurology | abnormal plantar reflex | |
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| B | Baghdad boil | Baghdad | | | |
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| B | Bainbridge reflex | Francis Arthur Bainbridge | | | |
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| B | Bairnsdale ulcer | Bairnsdale | | | |
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| B | Balbiani rings | Edouard-Gérard Balbiani | | | (needed) |
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| B | Ballance's sign | Charles Alfred Ballance | | | (needed) |
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| B | Bárány test | Robert Bárány | | | (needed) |
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| B | Barlow's maneuver | Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet | | | (needed) |
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| B | Bart hemoglobin | Barts Hospital | | | (needed) |
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| B | Bastian-Bruns sign | Henry Charlton Bastian, Ludwig Bruns | | | (needed) |
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| B | Battle's sign | William Henry Battle | neurosurgery/traumatology | basilar skull fracture | |
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| B | Beau's lines | Joseph Honoré Simon Beau | | | |
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| B | Beck's triad | Claude Schaeffer Beck | cardiology | cardiac tamponade | | hypotension, increased central venous pressure (JVP), distant heart sounds
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| B | Becker's sign | Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker | | | (needed) |
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| B | Beevor's sign | Charles Edward Beevor | | | |
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| B | Bekhterev-Mendel reflex | Vladimir Bekhterev, Kurt Mendel | | | (needed) |
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| B | Bence Jones protein | Henry Bence Jones | hematology | multiple myeloma | |
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| B | Benedict solution | Stanley Rossiter Benedict | | | |
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| B | Berger rhythm | Hans Berger | | | (needed) |
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| B | Bezold-Jarisch reflex | Albert von Bezold, Adolf Jarisch | | | (needed) |
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| B | Bielschowsky's tilt | Alfred Bielschowsky | | | (needed) |
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| B | Bing's sign | Paul Robert Bing | | | (needed) |
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| B | Biot's respiration | C. Biot | pulmonology | | |
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| B | Bitot's spots | Pierre Bitot | ophthalmology | vitamin A deficiency | |
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| B | Bjerrum scotoma | Jannik Peterson Bjerrum | | | (needed) |
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| B | Blumberg sign | Jacob Moritz Blumberg | | | |
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| B | Boas' point | Ismar Isidor Boas | | | (needed) |
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| B | Boas' sign I | Ismar Isidor Boas | | | |
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| B | Boas' sign II | Ismar Isidor Boas | | | (needed) |
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| B | Bodansky unit | Meyer Bodansky | | | (needed) |
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| B | Bombay blood group | Bombay | hematology | blood group | |
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| B | Boston's sign | L.N. Boston | | | |
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| B | Bouchard's nodes | Charles-Joseph Bouchard | rheumatology | osteoarthritis | |
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| B | Bracht-Wachter bodies | Erich Franz Eugen Bracht, H. Wächter | | | |
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| B | Branham's sign | Henry Branham | | | (needed) |
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| B | Braxton Hicks contraction | John Braxton Hicks | obstetrics | normal pregnancy | |
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| B | Brewer infarcts | George Emerson Brewer | | | (needed) |
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| B | Broadbent inverted sign | William Broadbent | | | (needed) |
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| B | Brissaud's reflex | Édouard Brissaud | | | (needed) |
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| B | Broadbent law | William Broadbent | | | (needed) |
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| B | Broadbent sign | William Broadbent | | | (needed) |
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| B | Broca aphasia | Paul Broca | neurology | | |
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| B | Brodie-Trendelenburg test | Benjamin Collins Brodie, Friedrich Trendelenburg | | | |
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| B | Brudzinski sign | Józef Brudziński | neurology | meningitis | |
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| B | Bruit de Roger | Henri-Louis Roger | | | (needed) |
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| B | Bruns ataxia | Ludwig Bruns | | | (needed) |
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| B | Brushfield spots | Thomas Brushfield | | | |
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| B | Burton line | Henry Burton | toxicology | lead poisoning | |
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| C | Cabot rings | Richard Cabot | hematology | lead poisoning, anaemias | |
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| C | Caput medusae | Medusa | | | |
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| C | Cardarelli's sign | ? | | | |
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| C | Carey Coombs murmur | Carey Coombs | | | (needed) |
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| C | Carnett's test | John Carnett | | | (needed) |
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| C | Carvallo sign | José Carvallo | | | (needed) |
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| C | Casal collar | Gaspar Casal | | | (needed) |
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| C | Casoni test | Tommaso Casoni | | | (needed) |
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| C | Celsus signs of inflammation | Aulus Cornelius Celsus | | inflammation | |
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| C | Chaddock reflex | Charles Gilbert Chaddock | | | |
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| C | Chadwick sign | James Read Chadwick | obstetrics | | |
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| C | Charcot's triad | Jean-Martin Charcot | surgery | ascending cholangitis | |
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| C | Charcot-Leyden crystals | Jean-Martin Charcot, Ernst Viktor von Leyden | | | |
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| C | Cheyne-Stokes respiration | John Cheyne, William Stokes | palliative care | | |
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| C | Churchill-Cope reflex | Edward Delos Churchill, Oliver Cope | | | (needed) |
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| C | Chvostek's sign | František Chvostek | endocrinology | hypocalcemia | | tapping over facial nerve elicits abnormal muscle contraction(s)
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| C | Clark sign | Alonzo Clark | | | (needed) |
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| C | Claybrook sign | Edwin Claybrook | | | (needed) |
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| C | Clutton's joints | Henry Hugh Clutton | | | (needed) |
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| C | Codman's triangle | Ernest Armory Codman | | | |
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| C | Comby sign | Jules Comby | | | (needed) |
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| C | Coombs test | Robin Coombs | hematology | hemolytic anemia | |
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| C | Coons fluorescent antibody method | Albert Coons | | | (needed) |
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| C | Corrigan pulse | Dominic John Corrigan | cardiology | aortic regurgitation | |
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| C | Councilman body | William Councilman | | | |
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| C | Courvoisier's law | Ludwig Georg Courvoisier | gastroenterology | pancreatic cancer | |
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| C | Crichton-Browne sign | James Crichton-Browne | | | (needed) |
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| C | Crowe sign | Samuel Crowe | | | |
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| C | Cruveilhier-Baumgarten bruit | Jean Cruveilhier, Paul Clemens von Baumgarten | | | (needed) |
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| C | Cullen's sign | Thomas Cullen | surgery | intraabdominal hemorrhage | |
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| C | Curschmann spirals | Hans Curschmann | | | |
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| C | Cushing's triad | Harvey Cushing | neurology | raised intracranial pressure | |
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| D | Dagher Maneuver | Nabil Dagher | trauma surgery | bimanual palpation of foreign object lodged in pelvis with one digit in an incision lateral to the anus and the other digit inserted in the rectum | |
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| D | Dahl's sign | ? | | | [1] |
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| D | Dalrymple sign | ? | | | synd/494 at Who Named It |
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| D | Dance's sign | ? | | | synd/3355 at Who Named It |
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| D | Darier's sign | ? | | | |
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| D | Dawson's fingers | ? | | | [2] [3] |
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| D | De Musset's sign | ? | cardiology | aortic regurgitation | |
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| D | Dennie's lines | ? | | | ([4]) |
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| D | Destot's sign | ? | | | [5] |
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| D | Dix-Hallpike test | ? | | | synd/3615 at Who Named It |
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| D | Döhle bodies - | Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle | | | |
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| D | Doi's sign | ? | | | [6] |
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| D | Dunphy sign | ? | | | [7] |
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| D | Duroziez's sign | ? | cardiology | aortic regurgitation | |
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| E | Elschnig spots | Anton Elschnig | ophthalmology | hypertensive retinopathy | |
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| E | Epstein's pearls | ? | | | |
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| E | Ewart's sign | ? | | pericardial effusion | |
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| F | Finkelstein's test | Harry Finkelstein | rheumatology | DeQuervain's tenosynovitis | |
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| F | Fordyce spots | ? | | | |
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| F | Forschimer spots | ? | | | (needed) |
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| F | Fothergill's sign | ? | | | |
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| F | Fox's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| F | Frank's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| F | Friedreich's sign | ? | | | |
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| F | Froment's sign | ? | neurology | ulnar nerve palsy | |
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| G | Gallavardin dissociation | ? | | | (needed) |
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| G | Gandy-Gamma nodules | ? | | | (needed) |
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| G | Gerhard's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| G | Goetz sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| G | Gond's maneuver | ? | | | (needed) |
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| G | Goodell's sign | ? | obstetrics | | |
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| G | Goodsall's rule | ? | | | |
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| G | Gordon's maneuver | ? | | | (needed) |
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| G | Gottron's papules | ? | rheumatology | dermatomyositis | |
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| G | Gowers' sign (Gowers' maneuver) | William Richard Gowers | neurology | muscular dystrophy | |
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| G | Graefe's sign | Albrecht von Gräfe | endocrinology/ophthalmology | Graves disease | |
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| G | Graham Steell murmur | ? | | | (needed) |
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| G | Grey Turner's sign | ? | surgery | retroperitoneal hemorrhage | |
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| G | Griffith's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| G | Grotton's lesions | ? | | | (needed) |
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| G | Gunn's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| H | Hamman's sign | ? | | | |
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| H | Hampton's hump | ? | | | |
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| H | Hannington-Kiff sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| H | Harrison's groove | ? | | | |
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| H | Hatchcock's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| H | Heberden's node | William Heberden | rheumatology | osteoarthritis | |
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| H | Hegar's sign | Ernst Ludwig Alfred Hegar | | | |
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| H | Hess test | ? | | | (needed) |
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| H | Hill's sign | ? | | | |
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| H | Hippocratic face | Hippocrates | palliative care | impending death | |
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| H | Hippocratic fingers | Hippocrates | pulmonary medicine | clubbing | |
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| H | Hirschberg test | Julius Hirschberg | | test for strabismus | |
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| H | Hoffman's sign | ? | neurology | | |
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| H | Hollenhorst plaque | Robert Hollenhorst | opthalmology | hypertension, coronary artery disease, and/or diabetes | |
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| H | Holmes-Adie syndrome | ? | | | |
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| H | Homan's sign | ? | | deep vein thrombosis | |
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| H | Hoover's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| H | Howship-Romberg sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| H | Hutchinson freckle | ? | | | (needed) |
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| H | Hutchinson pupil | ? | | | (needed) |
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| H | Hutchinson's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| H | Hutchinson's teeth | ? | pediatrics | congenital syphilis | |
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| J | Janeway lesion | Theodore Caldwell Janeway | cardiology | infective endocarditis | |
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| J | Jendrassik maneuver | Ernő Jendrassik | neurology | hyporeflexia | |
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| J | Joffroy sign | ? | | | |
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| J | John Thomas sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| J | Jolly test | ? | | | (needed) |
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| J | Jones criteria | ? | | | (needed) |
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| K | Kanavel's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| K | Kayser-Fleischer ring | ? | neurology & gastroenterology | Wilson's disease | |
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| K | Kehr's sign | Hans Kehr | | ruptured spleen | |
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| K | Kelly's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| K | Kerley lines | Peter Kerley | radiology | pulmonary edema | |
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| K | Kernig's sign | Woldemar Kernig | neurology | meningism, meningitis | synd/2200 at Who Named It |
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| K | Koebner's phenomenon | Heinrich Koebner | dermatology | various conditions | |
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| K | Koeppe's nodules | Leonhard Koeppe | ophthalmology | uveitis | |
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| K | Koplik's spots | Henry Koplik | pediatrics | measles | |
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| K | Korotkoff sounds | Nikolai Korotkov | cardiology | sphygmomanometry | |
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| K | Kussmaul breathing or respiration | Adolph Kussmaul | endocrinology | metabolic acidosis | |
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| K | Kussmaul's sign | Adolph Kussmaul | cardiology | pericardial effusion | |
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| K | Kveim test | Morten Ansgar Kveim | pulmonary medicine | sarcoidosis | |
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| L | Lachman maneuver | John Lachman | orthopedic surgery | anterial cruciate ligament injury | |
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| L | Ladin's sign | ? | obstetrics | | |
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| L | Lancisi's sign | ? | | | |
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| L | Lasègue's sign | Charles Lasègue | neurology | | |
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| L | Leopold's maneuver | ? | obstetrics | | synd/3225 at Who Named It |
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| L | Leser-Trelat sign | ? | | | |
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| L | Levine's sign | ? | | | |
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| L | Lhermitte's sign | Jean Lhermitte | neurology | | |
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| L | Lisch nodule | ? | | | |
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| L | Lisker's sign | ? | | deep venous thrombosis | |
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| L | Litten's sign | ? | cardiology | infective endocarditis | eMedicine |
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| L | Louvel's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| L | Lowenberg's sign | ? | | deep vein thrombosis | |
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| M | Macewen's sign | ? | | | |
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| M | Magnan's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| M | Marcus Gunn pupil | ? | neurology | | |
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| M | Marie's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| M | Markle sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| M | Mayne's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| M | McBurney's point | ? | surgery | appendicitis | |
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| M | McConnell's sign | ? | cardiology | pulmonary embolus | (needed) |
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| M | McDonald's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| M | McMurray test | ? | | | |
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| M | Means-Lerman scratch | ? | | | (needed) |
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| M | Mees' lines | R.A. Mees | toxicology | arsenic or heavy metal poisoning | |
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| M | Mentzer index | ? | hematology | microcytic anemia | |
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| M | Miller-Fisher test | ? | | | (needed) |
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| M | Monash sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| M | Möbius's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| M | Muehrckle's nails | ? | | | (needed) |
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| M | Mulder's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| M | Müller's maneuver | ? | | | |
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| M | Müller's sign | ? | | | |
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| M | Murphy's punch sign | ? | | perinephric abscess | |
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| M | Murphy's sign | ? | surgery | cholecystitis | |
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| M | Myerson's sign | ? | neurology | Parkinson's disease | |
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| N | Naegele's rule | Franz Karl Naegele | gynecology | gestation | | method of estimating due date
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| N | Nardi test | ? | gastroenterology | | |
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| N | Nelson's syndrome | ? | endocrinology | pituitary adenoma | |
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| N | Nikolsky's sign | ? | dermatology | | |
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| O | O'Brien's test | ? | | | (needed) |
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| O | O'Donoghue's triad | ? | | knee injury | |
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| O | Oliver's sign | ? | | | |
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| O | Oppenheim's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| O | Ortolani's sign | Marino Ortolani | pediatrics & orthopedics | congenital hip dislocation | /ortolanis_test_for_congenital_hip_dislocation |
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| O | Osborn wave | ? | | | (needed) |
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| O | Osler's node | William Osler | | | |
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| O | Osler's sign | William Osler | | | |
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| P | Palla's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| P | Pastia's sign | ? | | | (needed) (Associated with Scarlatiniform rash and strep pyogenes) |
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| P | Patrick's test | ? | | sacroiliitis | |
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| P | Pemberton's sign | ? | | | |
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| P | Phalen's maneuver | ? | | | |
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| P | Piskacek's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| P | Plummer's nail | ? | | | (needed) |
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| P | Pratt's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| P | Plummer-Vinson syndrome | ? | | iron deficiency anemia | |
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| Q | Queckenstedt's maneuver | ? | | spinal stenosis | |
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| Q | Quincke's sign | ? | | | |
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| R | Reynolds' pentad | ? | | ascending cholangitis | |
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| R | Riesman's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| R | Rigler's sign | ? | | | |
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| R | Rinne test | ? | | | |
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| R | Romana's sign | ? | | Chagas' disease | |
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| R | Romberg test | ? | | | |
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| R | Rosenbach's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| R | Roth's spots | ? | | | (needed) |
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| R | Rovsing's sign | ? | | appendicitis | |
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| R | Rumpel-Leede sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| R | Russell's sign | ? | | | |
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| S | Salus's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| S | Schafer's maneuver | ? | | | (needed) |
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| S | Schamroth's window test | ? | | | |
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| S | Schilling test | ? | | | |
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| S | Schirmer's test | ? | | | |
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| S | Schober test | ? | ankylosing spondylitis | | |
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| S | Shone's complex | ? | | | (needed) |
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| S | Siegrist streaks | ? | | | |
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| S | Sims-Huhner test | ? | | | (needed) |
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| S | Sister Mary Joseph sign (Sister Mary Joseph nodule) | Sister Mary Joseph Dempsey (born Julia Dempsey) | oncology | various malignancies | |
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| S | Spurling's test | ? | | | (needed) |
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| S | Stellwag's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| S | Still's murmur | ? | cardiology | | |
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| S | Stransky's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| S | Stroop test | ? | | | |
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| S | Strümpell's sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| S | Susac's syndrome | John Susac | | | |
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| T | Terry's nails | ? | neurology | liver disease, others | |
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| T | Terry-Thomas's sign | Terry-Thomas | | | (needed) |
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| T | Thompson's test | ? | | | (needed) |
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| T | Tinel's sign | ? | neurology | | |
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| T | Todd's paresis | Robert Bentley Todd | neurology | seizures | |
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| T | Tolosa-Hunt syndrome | ? | | | |
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| T | Traube's sign | ? | | | |
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| T | Trendelenburg gait | Friedrich Trendelenburg | neurology | | |
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| T | Trendelenburg's sign | Friedrich Trendelenburg | neurology | | |
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| T | Trousseau's sign | Armand Trousseau | | | |
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| U | Uhthoff's phenomenon | ? | neurology | multiple sclerosis | |
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| U | Unterberger test | ? | neurology | | |
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| V | Virchow's triad | Rudolf Virchow | hematology | etiology of thrombosis | |
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| V | Virchow-Robin spaces | ? | | | |
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| V | Volkmann's contracture | Richard von Volkmann | | | |
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| V | Von Braun-Fernwalds sign | ? | | | (needed) |
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| V | Von Graefe sign | ? | | goiter | |
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| W | Wada test | ? | neurology | | |
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| W | Waddell's signs | ? | | | |
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| W | Waddell's triad | ? | pediatric trauma | Pedestrian stuck by motor vehicle | |
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| W | Watson's water hammer pulse | ? | | | |
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| W | Whipple's triad | Allen Whipple | endocrinology | hypoglycemia | |
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| W | Wickham's striae | ? | dermatology | lichen planus | |
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| W | Widal test | Georges-Fernand Widal | | salmonella | |
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| W | Winterbottom's sign | ? | | trypanosomiasis | |
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| W | Wolff-Parkinson-White triad | ? | | | (needed) |
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| W | Wright's maneuver | ? | | | (needed) |
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Acknowledgement and Attribution Regarding Sources of Content
Some of the initial content on this page may be incorporated in part from copyleft sources in the public domain including wikis such as Wikipedia and AskDrWiki. Drug information for patients came from the The National Library of Medicine. Infectious disease information may have come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Differential Diagnoses are drawn from clinicians as well as an amalgamation of 3 sources: 1.The Disease Database; 2. Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:3; 3. Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:7 .
