Common Medical Signs Flashcards

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Babinski Sign

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Extension and spreading of the toes when the bottom of the foot is stroked

-Nervous system lesion

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Battles sign

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Bluish hue to bony prominence behind the ear
-Basilar skull fracture

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Beck Triad

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Cardiac tamponade
-JVD
-Muffled heart tones
-Hypotension

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Braxton Hicks

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“False Labor”
-Intermittent contraction of the uterus after third month of pregnancy

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Brudzinski’s Sign

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Meningitis
-Flexion of the neck result is flexion of the hip

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Coopernail’s Sign

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Pelvic Fracture
-Ecchymosis on the perineum and around the scrotum or labia

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Cullen’s sign

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Bluish discoloration around the umbilicus

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Cushing’s Triad

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Increased ICP
-Hypertension
-Irregular respirations
-Bradycardia
-Widened pulse pressure

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Grey-Turner’s

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-Pancreatitis
Discoloration of the skin around the flank

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Hamman’s Sign

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-Mediastinal Emphysema
Crunching sound heard with asynchronous heart beat

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Kehr’s Sign

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-Splenic rupture
Left shoulder pain

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Kernig’s Sign

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-Meningitis
Pain or resistance to knee extension when the hip is flex at 90 degrees

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Levine

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-Cardiac chest pain
Patient demonstrates pain with clutched fist over the midline of the chest

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McBurney’s

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-Appendicitis
Tenderness 2/3 the distance between the umbilicus and the ileum

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Murphy’s

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Pt unable to take deep breath on inspiration with deep palpation beneath right coastal margins

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Trousseau’s sign

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Hypocalcemia
Contraction of the arm with blood pressure cuff inflation

17
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Chvostek sign

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Hypocalcemia
Stimulation of facial nerve leads to facial twitching

18
Q

Steeple sign

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Croup
X ray finding

19
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Thumbprint sign

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Epiglottis
X ray finding - lateral view