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List of eponymous medical signs

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Eponymous medical signs are those that are named after a person or persons, usually the physicians who first described them, but occasionally named after a famous patient. This list includes other eponymous entities of diagnostic significance; i.e. tests, reflexes, etc.

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Numerous additional signs can be found for Graves disease under Graves' ophthalmopathy.

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if the palmar arch is not present, radial artery stick for blood gases is contraindicated

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Goldman, Lee. Goldman's Cecil Medicine (24th ed.). Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders. p. 2446. ISBN 1437727883.

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also called Gowers' manoeuvre

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also called Hutchinson's incisors

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or Kussmaul respiration

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also called the double wall sign

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also Sister Mary Joseph sign

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List_of_eponymous_medical_signs

List of eponymous medical signs

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Sign	Name	Specialty	Associated conditions	External link (if no internal link)	Descriptor
Aaron's sign	Charles Dettie Aaron	surgery	appendicitis		epigastric pain with pressure on McBurney's point
Abadie's sign	Jean Marie Charles Abadie	endocrinology	Graves' disease		levator palpebrae superioris spasm
Abadie's symptom	Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie	neurology	tabes dorsalis		absence of pain on Achilles tendon pressure
Abderhalden reaction	Emil Abderhalden	obstetrics	pregnancy		serum reaction;obsolete
Abelin reaction	Isaak Abelin	infectious disease	syphilis		presence of arsenical anti-syphilitic;obsolete
Addis count	Thomas Addis	nephrology	pyelonephritis		quantitative cells and casts in 24hr. urine
Adie pupil	William John Adie	neurology	ciliary nerve damage		dilated pupil, poorly reactive but with normal near accommodation
Adson's sign	Alfred Washington Adson	vascular surgery	thoracic outlet syndrome		obliteration of radial pulse with manoeuvres
Alexander's law	Gustav Alexander	neurology, neurosurgery, ENT	vestibular lesions		describes nystagmus in vestibular lesions
Allen's test	Edgar Van Nuys Allen	vascular surgery, critical care^[1]	arterial supply of the hand		tests for presence of palmar ulnar-radial anastomosis (palmar arch)
Apgar score	Virginia Apgar	obstetrics, pediatrics			assess health of newborn
Apley grind test	Alan Graham Apley	orthopaedic surgery	meniscal lesions		manoeuvres to elicit knee pain
Argyll Robertson pupils	Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson	neurology	neurosyphilis^[2]		light-near dissociation
Arneth count	Josef Arneth	haematology, nutrition	folate deficiency		lobulation of neutrophil nuclei
Asboe-Hansen sign	Gustav Asboe-Hansen	dermatology	bullae		extension of a blister to adjacent unblistered skin when pressed
Aschheim–Zondek test	Selmar Aschheim, Bernhard Zondek	obstetrics	normal pregnancy	synd/1834 at Who Named It?	oestral reaction in mouse injected with pregnant urine
Aschoff body	Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff	rheumatology, pathology	rheumatic fever		foci of interstitial inflammation in the myocardium and elsewhere
Ashby technique	Winifred Ashby	haematology, pathology	haemolysis	synd/233 at Who Named It?	agglutination test for erythrocyte survival
Auberger's blood group	Auberger (patient)	haematology	normal physiology	synd/283 at Who Named It?	Aua antigen
Auenbrugger's sign	Josef Leopold Auenbrugger	cardiology	pericardial effusion	synd/284 at Who Named It?	bulging epigastrium
Auer rods	John Auer	hematology	acute myeloid leukemia		cytoplasmic inclusions in myeloblasts
Auspitz's sign	Heinrich Auspitz	dermatology	psoriasis		pinpoint bleeding when scales are removed from psoriasis or warts
Austin Flint murmur	Austin Flint	cardiology	aortic insufficiency		mid-diastolic rumble heard at apex
Babinski sign	Joseph Babinski	neurology	abnormal plantar reflex	Kumar SP, Ramasubramanian D (December 2000). "The Babinski sign—a reappraisal". Neurol India. 48 (4): 314–8. PMID 11146592. Retrieved 13 April 2009.	dorsiflexion of the hallux with fanning of the remaining phalanges upon soft stimulation of the lateral plantar surface of the foot
Bainbridge reflex	Francis Arthur Bainbridge	cardiology	normal physiology		increase in heart rate with increase in circulating blood volume
Balbiani rings	Edouard-Gérard Balbiani	genetics	RNA transcription	synd/601 at Who Named It?	large chromosome puff indicating site of RNA transcription
Ballance's sign	Charles Alfred Ballance	general surgery	abdominal/splenic trauma		percussive dullness left flank, LUQ, percussive resonance right flank
Bancroft's sign	Joseph Bancroft	vascular medicine	deep vein thrombosis		pain on anterior, but not lateral, compression of calf
Bárány test	Robert Bárány	ENT, neurology	vertigo, vestibular dysfunction	synd/595 at Who Named It?	nystagmus elicited by hot or cold irrigation of ear canal
Barlow's maneuver	Thomas Geoffrey Barlow, English Pediatric Orthopedist, (1915–1975)	paediatrics, orthopaedic surgery	hip dysplasia		dislocation on adduction of hip
Bart hemoglobin	Barts Hospital	Obstetrics, pathology	indicates a specific cause of death in some stillborns		Loss of all four alpha-globin genes (total alpha-thalassemia) leads to severely anemic stillborn babies with small amounts of an abnormal hemoglobin composed of four gamma sub-units (Bart's Hemoglobin)
Bastian–Bruns sign	Henry Charlton Bastian, Ludwig Bruns	neurology	spinal cord transection		loss of muscle tone and reflexes below lesion level
Battle's sign	William Henry Battle	neurosurgery/traumatology	basal skull fracture		mastoid ecchymosis
Beau's lines	Joseph Honoré Simon Beau	dermatology, internal medicine	multiple, including trauma		transverse ridges on nails
Beck's triad	Claude Schaeffer Beck	cardiology	cardiac tamponade		hypotension, increased central venous pressure (JVP), distant heart sounds
Becker's sign	Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker	ophthalmology, endocrinology	thyrotoxicosis		visible pulsation of retinal arteries
Beevor's sign	Charles Edward Beevor	neurology, neurosurgery	spinal trauma at T10		cephalad movement of navel on cervical flexion
Bekhterev–Jacobsohn reflex	Vladimir Bekhterev, Louis Jacobsohn-Lask	neurology	pyramidal tract lesions		stroking dorsal radial skin, with forearm in supination, elicits wrist and finger flexion
Bekhterev–Mendel reflex	Vladimir Bekhterev, Kurt Mendel	neurology	pyramidal tract lesions		toe flexion on percussion of dorsum of foot
Bence Jones protein	Henry Bence Jones	hematology	multiple myeloma