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1
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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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5
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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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6
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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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8
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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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10
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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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12
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Neck vein engorgement
Muffled heart sounds
Hypotension

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Beck triad

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13
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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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14
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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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15
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Pain reflex contraction of the right hip joint

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Arapov sign

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16
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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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17
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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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18
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Sharp pain upon pinching appendix between thumb and iliacus muscle

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Bassler sign

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19
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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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20
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Temporarily abdominal wall rebound tenderness

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Blumberg sign

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21
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Angel sign

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Tympanic membrane perforation

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22
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Battle sign

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Basal skull fractures

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23
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Berry sign

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Advanced thyroid malignancy encasing carotid

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24
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Bezold abscess

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Mastoiditis

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25
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Brown sign

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Glomus tumor

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26
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Cushing response

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Increased intracranial pressure (late sign)

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27
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Ludwig angina

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Infected 2nd-3rd mandibular molar teeth

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28
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Maroni sign

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Hyperthyroidism

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29
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Queen Anne sign

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Hypothyroidism

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30
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Racoon Sign

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Basal skull fracture

31
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Adson sign

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Thoracic outlet syndrome

32
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Beck triad

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Cardiac tamponade

33
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Booerhave syndrome, pneumomediastinum

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Hamman sign

34
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Pemberton sign

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Superior vena cava syndrome

35
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Arapov sign

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Appendicitis

36
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Aaron sign

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Appendicitis

37
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Ballance sign

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Splenic hematoma or rupture

38
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Bassler sign

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Chronic appendicitis

39
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Beevor sign

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Paralysis of inferior portions of rectus abdominis muscles

40
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Blumberg sign

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Peritonitis

41
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Shelf palpable on rectal or even vaginal examination

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Blumer shelf

42
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Right subscapular pain or hyperaesthesia (increased or altered sensitivity)

43
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Emesis then retching
Abdominal distention
Failure ti pass an NGT

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Borchardt triad

44
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Exacerbation of pain when the uterus is shifted to the right side

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Bryan sign

45
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Distended or engorged superficial epigastric veins radiating from the umbilicus

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Caput medusae

46
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Unremitting or increased abdominal pain when patient is asked to lift head

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Positive Carnett sign

47
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Decreased abdominal pain when patient is asked to lift head.

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Negative Carnett sign

48
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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

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Castell sign

49
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Excruciating cervical motion tenderness upon cervical manipulation (pain so great that patient “renexively reaches to grab the chandelier”)

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Chandelier sign

50
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Fever
Jaundice
RUQ pain

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Charcot triad

51
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Heart or breath sounds heard through the abdominal wall on auscultation

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Claybrook sign

52
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A palpable gallbladder with painless jaundice is unlikely to be cholelithiasis

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Courvoisier law

53
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Varicose veins involving the umbilical and Paraumbilical veins; humming sound (bruit) heard over the area

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Cruveilhier-Baumgarten bruit

54
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Bluish discoloration around the umbilicus

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Cullen sign

55
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Absence of palpable viscera in the right lower quadrant caused by cecum moving away from the right iliac fossa

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Dance sign

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Shoulder pain on inspiration due to diaphragmatic irritation by a hemiperitoneum

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Danforth sign

57
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Increased abdominal pain on coughing

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Dunphy sign

58
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Blumer shelf

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Metastasis in the pouch of Douglas secondary to lung, pancreatic, or gatric carcinoma

59
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Boas sign

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Cholethiasis, cholecystitis

60
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Borchardt triad

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Gastric volvulus

61
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Bryan sign

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Acute appendicitis in pregnancy

62
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Caput medusae

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Portal hypertension

63
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Source of abdominal pain is in the abdominal wall

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Positive Carnett sign

64
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Source of abdominal pain is intraabdominal.

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Negative Carnett sign

65
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Splenomegaly

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Castell sign

66
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Pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy

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Chandelier sign

67
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Charcot triad

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Cholangitis

68
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Claybrook sign

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Ruptured abdominal viscus from blunt abdominal trauma

69
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Courvoisier law

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Obstructive jaundice

70
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Cruveilhier-Baumgarten bruit

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Portal hypertension

71
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Cullen sign

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Retroperitoneal hemorrhage from pancreatitis

72
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Dance sign

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Intussusception

73
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Danforth sign

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Hemoperitoneum

74
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Dunphy sign

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Appendicitis

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