Common Medical Signs Flashcards
Babinski Sign
Extension and spreading of the toes when the bottom of the foot is stroked
-Nervous system lesion
Battles sign
Bluish hue to bony prominence behind the ear
-Basilar skull fracture
Beck Triad
Cardiac tamponade
-JVD
-Muffled heart tones
-Hypotension
Braxton Hicks
“False Labor”
-Intermittent contraction of the uterus after third month of pregnancy
Brudzinski’s Sign
Meningitis
-Flexion of the neck result is flexion of the hip
Coopernail’s Sign
Pelvic Fracture
-Ecchymosis on the perineum and around the scrotum or labia
Cullen’s sign
Bluish discoloration around the umbilicus
Cushing’s Triad
Increased ICP
-Hypertension
-Irregular respirations
-Bradycardia
-Widened pulse pressure
Grey-Turner’s
-Pancreatitis
Discoloration of the skin around the flank
Hamman’s Sign
-Mediastinal Emphysema
Crunching sound heard with asynchronous heart beat
Kehr’s Sign
-Splenic rupture
Left shoulder pain
Kernig’s Sign
-Meningitis
Pain or resistance to knee extension when the hip is flex at 90 degrees
Levine
-Cardiac chest pain
Patient demonstrates pain with clutched fist over the midline of the chest
McBurney’s
-Appendicitis
Tenderness 2/3 the distance between the umbilicus and the ileum
Murphy’s
Pt unable to take deep breath on inspiration with deep palpation beneath right coastal margins
Trousseau’s sign
Hypocalcemia
Contraction of the arm with blood pressure cuff inflation
Chvostek sign
Hypocalcemia
Stimulation of facial nerve leads to facial twitching
Steeple sign
Croup
X ray finding
Thumbprint sign
Epiglottis
X ray finding - lateral view
