Murtagh's Buzzwords Flashcards
(154 cards)
1
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Age spots?
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lentigines
2
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Alice in wonderland syndrome?
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A state of unreality with a distorted view of one self.
Associated with complex and partial seizures and migraines. Experiences when falling asleep
3
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Bird Fancier’s disease
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psittacosis
4
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Dark haemarages into the skin caused by infection from Yersinia Pestis
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Black death
5
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Black eschar at bite site
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Typhus (esp. scrub typhus from tick bite)
6
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Blackwater fever
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Crhonic severe plasmodium Falciparum Malaria
7
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Blue sclera?
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Osteogenesis imperfecta
8
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Bones, stones, moans and abdominal groans?
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Hypercalcaemia –> from Hyperparathyroidism?
9
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Breakbone fever
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Dengue
10
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brewer’s droop -
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Erectile dysfunction due to alcohol
11
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Buffalo hump
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Cushing syndrome
12
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Bulky calves
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy
13
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Bull neck infection
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Diptheria
14
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Butterfly rash (3 ddx)
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SLE, Rosacia, Mitral facies
15
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Cat’s eye?
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Retinoblastoma
16
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Cat poo?
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Toxoplasmosis
17
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Christmas tree rash
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Pityriasis Rosea
18
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Coca cola urine
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Post strep GN
19
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Coffe ground vomitting
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Gastric/duodenal bleeding
20
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Creeping (Serpinginous ) rash
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Cutaneous larvae migrans
21
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Crocodile tears syndrome
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Post Bell palsy
22
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Cupids disease - increased libido in older people with _____
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neurosyphillis
23
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Deja vu (familiarity) or Jamais vu (un reality) is associated with complex partial seizure affecting which lobe?
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Temporal lobe
24
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Dinner fork deformity?
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Colle fracture
25
Dirty diaper (pants) gait
Ataxic gait of cerebellar disease
26
Doll's head sign
People in coma/semi coma with eyes focused on a fixed spot
27
Donald duck speech?
Pseudobulbar palsy of motor neurone disease
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Donut shaped rash at bite site
Lyme disease from tick bite
29
Dowager's hump
Osteoporosis
30
Duck bill deformity
Z deformity of thumb in RA
31
Elephant man
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (Von Recklinghausen disease)
32
Almond shaped eyes
Prader Willi Syndrome
33
Beefy Bloodshot eye
Subconjunctival haematoma
34
Glitter in the eyes
Bright eyes of thyrotoxicosis (due to conjunctival oedema)
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Lazy eye in kid
Ambylopia
36
pink eye
usually describes viral conjunctivitis
37
Bird like facies
Scleroderma
38
Bulldog facial appareance
Congenital Syphillis
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Chipmunk facial appearance
Thalassaemia major
40
Elfin facial appearance
William syndrome
41
Fixed emotion facies + bronze corneal ring
Wilson disease
42
Hatchet facial appearance
Dystrophia myotonia
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Hippocratic/death mask
Peritonitis, cholera
44
Monkey facial apearacne
Hypopituitarism
45
China clay faeces
Obstructive jaundice
46
Black stool
Malaena in faeces
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Pea soup faeces
Typhoid fever
48
Rabbit pellets
Irritable bowel syndrome
49
Red current jelly stools
Intussusception
50
Rice water stools
Cholera
51
Silver stools
Carcinoma of ampulla of Vater
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Toothpaste stools
Hirschsprungs disease
53
Farmer's lung
Extrinsic allergic alveolitis due to mouldy hay
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Stinky or sneaker's feet
Pitted keratolysis
55
Sweaty socks feet
Juvenie plantas dermatosis
56
Trench (immerson) doot
Severe soft tissue injury to due to prolonged immersion?
57
Quartan fever?
Plasmodium malariae
58
Quotidian (daily spikes) fever? (3)
Abscess, CMV, Pseudomonas infection
59
Step ladder fever
Typhoid
60
Undulant fever
Brucellosis or Lymphoma?
61
tertian fever - every third day
Plasmodium vivax
62
Fiery serpent
Guinea worm infestation
63
Gardner's arm?
Sporotrichosis (a chronic fungal infection)
64
Geographical tongue
Benign migratory glossitis due to unknown cause - but possibly hypersensitivity reaction
65
Glue ears?
Sticky fluid of secretory otitis media
66
Golfer's itch?
Summer leg rash
67
Brachioradial pruritus
Golfer's Vasculitis
68
Grey baby syndrome?
Adverse effect of chloramphenicol causing cardiovascular collapse
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Grunts and expletives?
Tourette syndrome
70
Gum boil?
Small abscess on gum due to dental caries
71
Happy Puppet syndrome in kid
Angelman disease (deletion of chromosome 15)
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Headache from asian food?
Adverse effect of monosodium glutamate
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Headache from hot dog?
Sodium nitrate
74
Thunderclap headache?
SAH, enlarging aneurysm or vascular malformation, meningitis
75
Hi-Fi-Di disease?
Terminal kidney failure because of hiccoughs, fits then dies
76
Extreme aversion to water since it causes painful pharyngeal spasms on drinking
Hydrophobia
77
Ice sugar penile glans
The white appearance of balantitis xerotica
78
Inverted champagne bottle legs (aka rooster legs)
Peroneal muscular dystrophy - Charcot Marie tooth disease
79
Jock itch?
Tinea Cruris
80
Repetitive strain injury of wrist in Australian workers...
Kangaroo paw syndrome
81
Sparse steely hair of inherited copper deficiency (X-linked in males)
Kinky hair syndrome
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Lemon-tinged, sallow skin
Chronic kidney failure, pernicious anaemia
83
Lockjaw?
Tetanus - the effect of muscle spasm
84
Cerebrovascular accident causing patient to be mute and paralysed
Locked in syndrome
85
Malta fever
Brucellosis
86
Milky or white legs
Phlegmasia alba dolens
87
"My hat doesn't fit any more"
Paget's disease
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"My gloves don't anymore"
Acromegaly
89
"My tongue seems too big for my mouth"
Acromegaly, amyloid, hypothyroidism
90
Mousy body odour syndrome
Phenylketonuria syndrome
91
Carpet layer's knee/housemaid's knee?
Prepatellar bursitis
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Clergyman's knee
Infrapatellar bursitis
93
Dancer's fracture
Fracture of base of fifth metatarsal bone
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Gamekeeper's thumb/skier's thumb
Ligamentous disruption of metacarpophalangeal joint
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Golfer's elbow
Medial epicondylitis
96
Jogger's knee
Patellofemoral joint pain syndrome
97
Jumper's knee
patellar tendonopathy
98
Moviegoer's knee - where people attending the movie sit on the aisle so they extend their legs into the isle for ocmfort
Patellofemoral syndrome - (chondromalacia patellae)
99
Nursemaid's arm
Pulled elbow in child
100
Policeman's heel
Plantar fascitis
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Runner's knee?
Iliotibial band tendonitis
102
Soccer toes -Black or bruised toe nails due to trauma
Subungal haematoma
103
tennis elbow
Lateral epicondylitis
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Tennis leg/monkey muscle tear
Torn medial head gastrocnemius
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Washerwoman's sprain
De Quervain tenosynovitis
106
Muzzle face...
The distribution of peri-oral dermatitis
107
Nettle rash?
Hives or urticaria
108
Hell raiser personality?
Borderline personality
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Mad dog personality?
Impulsive antisocial
110
Pickwickian syndrome?
Respiratory failure to gross obesity
111
Pigeon toes?
In toe-ing due to metatarsus varus, internal tibial torsion or medial femoral torsion
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Popeye syndrome?
Aka ‘Drummer’s forearm’— fascioscapulohumeral dystrophy: also appearance from a form of brachial plexus palsy
113
Port-wine stain?
Capillary malformation?
114
Pulseless disease?
Takasayu Arteritis
115
Q fever?
Query fever - a zoonosis due to Coxiella burnetti
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Rachitic rosary on chest?
A ring of costo-chondral beads seen in rickets
117
Red cherry spot at macular
Central retinal vein occlusion
118
Red man syndrome
Injection of IV vancomycin
119
Risus sardonicus
Tetanus
120
Saddle nose
Congenital syphillis
121
Saint vitus dance -purposeless body movements subsiding without neurological complications (St Vitus is patron saint of dancers and children)
Sydenham chorea
122
Sausage digits?
Swollen arthritic fingers of seronegative spondylarthropathy (e..g psoriasis)
123
Scalded skin syndorme
peeling infected skin due to Staph Auerus
124
Pain and localised tenderness over distal posteromedial border of tibia in active athletes
Shin splints - tibial stress syndrome
125
Symptoms of nasal, eye and other mucous membrane irritation, dry skin and headache associated with air conditioning in ‘sealed’ buildings
Sick building syndrome
126
A secondary malignant tumour in the umbilicus suggestive of intra- abdominal malignancy
Sister Mar Joseph's nodule
127
Snarling smile, especially with exercise?
Myasthenia gravis
128
Cavernous hemangioma...
Strawberry naevus
129
Stiff trunk and abdomen of an autoimmune neuromuscular disorder
Stiff person syndrome
130
Stork bite/salmon patch
Naevus flammus (dilated capillaries on face, eyelids and neck)
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Slapped face or cheek?
Erythema infectiosum
132
Sleepning sickness
The somnolent state associated with African Trypanosomiasis
133
Snail track ulcer
Found in the oral mucous membrane in secondary syphillis
134
Splinter haemorrhage
Infective endocarditis
135
Slummer leg = golfer's vasulitis
An erythematous pruritic rash on the legs after prolonged exercise such as in golf and hiking— invariably in summer months
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Sun downing -
Mild to moderate delirium at night
137
Swimmer's itch...?
Schistosomiasis
138
Black or hairy tongue
Dark elongated filiform papillae
139
Changing patters of erythema and hyperkeratosis on the surface of the tongue (probably hypersensitivity reaction)
Geographic tongue (erythema migrans)
140
Nicotine staining on tongue and palate
Pipe smoker's tongue
141
Wing beating (flapping) - asterixis
Hepatic failure
142
Pill rolling tremor
Parkinson's disease
143
Too many toes syndrome
Rupture of tibialis posterior muscle
144
Two lovely black eyes (spontaneous)—also ‘panda eyes’
Amyloidosis
145
Black (Black on standing) urine
Alkaptonuria
146
Red (on standing in sunlight) urine
Porphyria
147
Vietnamese time bomb
Meliodosis
148
Dysarthrai + intention tremor + nystagmys
Cerebellar disease (typical nystagmus)
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Tremor (postural or action) + head tremore + absence of parkinsonian features
Parkinson disease
150
Dementia + Myoclonus + ataxia
Creutz jakob disease
151
Dysphagia + Dysphonia /Dysarthra + spastic tongue
Pseudobulbar palsy
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Typical facies (temporalis atrophy and frontal baldin_ + muscle weakness + cataracts =
Myotonic dystrophy
153
Ataxia + Opthalmoplegia + areflexia
Miller-Fischer Variant of GBS
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UMN signs + LMN signs + fasciculations
Motor Neurone disease
