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Pus or fluid in external ear canal seen through otoscopy conducted with the patient blowing against a pinched nose (Tympanic membrane perforation)

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Angel sign

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Bruising over the mastoid process (mastoid ecchymosis0

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Battle sign

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Absent or muffled carotid pulse

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Berry sign

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Pus from mastoiditis escapes into the sternocleidomastoid muscle

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Bezold abscess

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Blanching of a purple-red middle ear mass with positive pressure during pneumatic otoscopy (Glomus tumor)

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Brown sign

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Hypertension
Bradycardia
Irregular respiration

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Cushing response

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Bilateral infection of the submandibular space (Sublingual space, and submylohyoid or submaxillary space)

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Ludwig angina

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Skin redness overlying the thyroid

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Maroni sign

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Thinning or loss of the lateral part (outer third) of the eyebrow

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Queen Anne Sign

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Bilateral black eyes

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Racoon eyes

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Disappearance of ipsilateral radial pulse when arm is outstretched and the patient looks to the side of the outstretched arm while holding his breath

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Adson sign

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Neck vein engorgement
Muffled heart sounds
Hypotension

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Beck triad

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Crunching or rasping sound in synchrony with the heartbeat heard over the precordium in the setting of air in the mediastinum (mediastinal emphysema)

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Hamman sign

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Facial congestion/cyanosis when arms are elevated over the head as they touch the face. Respiratory distress may also be seen.

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Pemberton sign

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Pain reflex contraction of the right hip joint

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Arapov sign

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Referred pain or feeling of distress in epigastriumor precordialregion on continuous firm pressure over the McBurney point

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Aaron sign

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Constant dullness to percussion in left flank and shifting dullness (upon change in position) to percussion in the right flank

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Ballance sign

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Sharp pain upon pinching appendix between thumb and iliacus muscle

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Bassler sign

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Upward movement of umbilicus as patient attempts to raise head from supine position

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Beevor sign

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Temporarily abdominal wall rebound tenderness

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Blumberg sign

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Angel sign

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Tympanic membrane perforation

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Battle sign

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Basal skull fractures

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Berry sign

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Advanced thyroid malignancy encasing carotid

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Bezold abscess

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Mastoiditis

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Brown sign
Glomus tumor
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Cushing response
Increased intracranial pressure (late sign)
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Ludwig angina
Infected 2nd-3rd mandibular molar teeth
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Maroni sign
Hyperthyroidism
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Queen Anne sign
Hypothyroidism
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Racoon Sign
Basal skull fracture
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Adson sign
Thoracic outlet syndrome
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Beck triad
Cardiac tamponade
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Booerhave syndrome, pneumomediastinum
Hamman sign
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Pemberton sign
Superior vena cava syndrome
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Arapov sign
Appendicitis
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Aaron sign
Appendicitis
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Ballance sign
Splenic hematoma or rupture
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Bassler sign
Chronic appendicitis
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Beevor sign
Paralysis of inferior portions of rectus abdominis muscles
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Blumberg sign
Peritonitis
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Shelf palpable on rectal or even vaginal examination
Blumer shelf
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Right subscapular pain or hyperaesthesia (increased or altered sensitivity)
Boas sign
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Emesis then retching Abdominal distention Failure ti pass an NGT
Borchardt triad
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Exacerbation of pain when the uterus is shifted to the right side
Bryan sign
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Distended or engorged superficial epigastric veins radiating from the umbilicus
Caput medusae
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Unremitting or increased abdominal pain when patient is asked to lift head
Positive Carnett sign
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Decreased abdominal pain when patient is asked to lift head.
Negative Carnett sign
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Change of note from resonant to dull when an examiner percusses the area of the lowest intercostal space (eighth or ninth) in the left anterior axillary line during full expiration and inspiration
Castell sign
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Excruciating cervical motion tenderness upon cervical manipulation (pain so great that patient "renexively reaches to grab the chandelier")
Chandelier sign
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Fever Jaundice RUQ pain
Charcot triad
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Heart or breath sounds heard through the abdominal wall on auscultation
Claybrook sign
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A palpable gallbladder with painless jaundice is unlikely to be cholelithiasis
Courvoisier law
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Varicose veins involving the umbilical and Paraumbilical veins; humming sound (bruit) heard over the area
Cruveilhier-Baumgarten bruit
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Bluish discoloration around the umbilicus
Cullen sign
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Absence of palpable viscera in the right lower quadrant caused by cecum moving away from the right iliac fossa
Dance sign
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Shoulder pain on inspiration due to diaphragmatic irritation by a hemiperitoneum
Danforth sign
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Increased abdominal pain on coughing
Dunphy sign
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Blumer shelf
Metastasis in the pouch of Douglas secondary to lung, pancreatic, or gatric carcinoma
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Boas sign
Cholethiasis, cholecystitis
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Borchardt triad
Gastric volvulus
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Bryan sign
Acute appendicitis in pregnancy
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Caput medusae
Portal hypertension
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Source of abdominal pain is in the abdominal wall
Positive Carnett sign
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Source of abdominal pain is intraabdominal.
Negative Carnett sign
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Splenomegaly
Castell sign
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Pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy
Chandelier sign
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Charcot triad
Cholangitis
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Claybrook sign
Ruptured abdominal viscus from blunt abdominal trauma
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Courvoisier law
Obstructive jaundice
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Cruveilhier-Baumgarten bruit
Portal hypertension
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Cullen sign
Retroperitoneal hemorrhage from pancreatitis
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Dance sign
Intussusception
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Danforth sign
Hemoperitoneum
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Dunphy sign
Appendicitis

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