Signs

Question 1

Light house sign

Answer 1

Acute ototis media

Pulsatile otorhea
Small perforation in tympanic membrane
Discharge of pus

Question 2

Kevorkain sign

Answer 2

Person dead

Railroad sign / cattle truking sign

Discontinuous retinal blood vessels on examing retina with ophthalmoscope

Question 3

Scharmoth sign

Answer 3

Presence of clubbing

Question 4

Amussats sign

Answer 4

Judicial hanging (long drop)

Horizontal / transverse tear in cartid artery

Question 5

Sehrts sign

Answer 5

Drowning (specific sign)

Micro rupture of gastric mucosa (stretching)

Question 6

Sveshnikovs sign

Answer 6

Drowning (specific sign )

Free liquid in paranasal sinus

Question 7

Sabinakys sign

Answer 7

Drowning (specific sign)

Small & anemic spleen

Question 8

Uenos sign

Answer 8

Water in middle ear

Question 9

Russell sign

Answer 9

Anorexia nervosa

Calius on knuckles

Question 10

Kussmauls sign

Answer 10

Paradoxical rise of jugular venous pressure on inspiration

Seen in constrictive pericarditis

( PULSUS PARADOXUS )