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Age spots?

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lentigines

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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

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Bird Fancier’s disease

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psittacosis

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Dark haemarages into the skin caused by infection from Yersinia Pestis

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Black death

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Black eschar at bite site

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Typhus (esp. scrub typhus from tick bite)

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Blackwater fever

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Crhonic severe plasmodium Falciparum Malaria

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Blue sclera?

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Osteogenesis imperfecta

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Bones, stones, moans and abdominal groans?

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Hypercalcaemia –> from Hyperparathyroidism?

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Breakbone fever

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Dengue

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brewer’s droop -

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Erectile dysfunction due to alcohol

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Buffalo hump

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Cushing syndrome

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Bulky calves

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Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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Bull neck infection

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Diptheria

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Butterfly rash (3 ddx)

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SLE, Rosacia, Mitral facies

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Cat’s eye?

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Retinoblastoma

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Cat poo?

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Toxoplasmosis

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Christmas tree rash

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Pityriasis Rosea

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Coca cola urine

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Post strep GN

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Coffe ground vomitting

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Gastric/duodenal bleeding

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Creeping (Serpinginous ) rash

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Cutaneous larvae migrans

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Crocodile tears syndrome

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Post Bell palsy

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Cupids disease - increased libido in older people with _____

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neurosyphillis

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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

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Dinner fork deformity?

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Colle fracture

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Dirty diaper (pants) gait

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Ataxic gait of cerebellar disease

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Doll’s head sign

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People in coma/semi coma with eyes focused on a fixed spot

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Donald duck speech?

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Pseudobulbar palsy of motor neurone disease

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Donut shaped rash at bite site

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Lyme disease from tick bite

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Dowager’s hump

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Osteoporosis

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Duck bill deformity

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Z deformity of thumb in RA

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Elephant man

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Neurofibromatosis type 1 (Von Recklinghausen disease)

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Almond shaped eyes

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Prader Willi Syndrome

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Beefy Bloodshot eye

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Subconjunctival haematoma

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Glitter in the eyes

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Bright eyes of thyrotoxicosis (due to conjunctival oedema)

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Lazy eye in kid

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Ambylopia

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pink eye

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usually describes viral conjunctivitis

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37
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Bird like facies

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Scleroderma

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38
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Bulldog facial appareance

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Congenital Syphillis

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39
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Chipmunk facial appearance

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Thalassaemia major

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Elfin facial appearance

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William syndrome

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Fixed emotion facies + bronze corneal ring

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Wilson disease

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42
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Hatchet facial appearance

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Dystrophia myotonia

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Hippocratic/death mask

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Peritonitis, cholera

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44
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Monkey facial apearacne

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Hypopituitarism

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45
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China clay faeces

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Obstructive jaundice

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46
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Black stool

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Malaena in faeces

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47
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Pea soup faeces

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Typhoid fever

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48
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Rabbit pellets

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Irritable bowel syndrome

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49
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Red current jelly stools

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Intussusception

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50
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Rice water stools

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Cholera

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51
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Silver stools

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Carcinoma of ampulla of Vater

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Toothpaste stools

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Hirschsprungs disease

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Farmer’s lung

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Extrinsic allergic alveolitis due to mouldy hay

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Stinky or sneaker’s feet

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Pitted keratolysis

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Sweaty socks feet

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Juvenie plantas dermatosis

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Trench (immerson) doot

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Severe soft tissue injury to due to prolonged immersion?

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57
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Quartan fever?

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Plasmodium malariae

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Quotidian (daily spikes) fever? (3)

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Abscess, CMV, Pseudomonas infection

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Step ladder fever

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Typhoid

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60
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Undulant fever

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Brucellosis or Lymphoma?

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tertian fever - every third day

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Plasmodium vivax

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Fiery serpent

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Guinea worm infestation

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Gardner’s arm?

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Sporotrichosis (a chronic fungal infection)

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Geographical tongue

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Benign migratory glossitis due to unknown cause - but possibly hypersensitivity reaction

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Glue ears?

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Sticky fluid of secretory otitis media

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Golfer’s itch?

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Summer leg rash

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Brachioradial pruritus

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Golfer’s Vasculitis

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Grey baby syndrome?

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Adverse effect of chloramphenicol causing cardiovascular collapse

69
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Grunts and expletives?

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Tourette syndrome

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Gum boil?

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Small abscess on gum due to dental caries

71
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Happy Puppet syndrome in kid

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Angelman disease (deletion of chromosome 15)

72
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Headache from asian food?

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Adverse effect of monosodium glutamate

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Headache from hot dog?

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Sodium nitrate

74
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Thunderclap headache?

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SAH, enlarging aneurysm or vascular malformation, meningitis

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Hi-Fi-Di disease?

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Terminal kidney failure because of hiccoughs, fits then dies

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Extreme aversion to water since it causes painful pharyngeal spasms on drinking

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Hydrophobia

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Ice sugar penile glans

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The white appearance of balantitis xerotica

78
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Inverted champagne bottle legs (aka rooster legs)

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Peroneal muscular dystrophy - Charcot Marie tooth disease

79
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Jock itch?

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Tinea Cruris

80
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Repetitive strain injury of wrist in Australian workers…

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Kangaroo paw syndrome

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Sparse steely hair of inherited copper deficiency (X-linked in males)

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Kinky hair syndrome

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Lemon-tinged, sallow skin

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Chronic kidney failure, pernicious anaemia

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Lockjaw?

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Tetanus - the effect of muscle spasm

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Cerebrovascular accident causing patient to be mute and paralysed

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Locked in syndrome

85
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Malta fever

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Brucellosis

86
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Milky or white legs

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Phlegmasia alba dolens

87
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“My hat doesn’t fit any more”

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Paget’s disease

88
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“My gloves don’t anymore”

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Acromegaly

89
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“My tongue seems too big for my mouth”

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Acromegaly, amyloid, hypothyroidism

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Mousy body odour syndrome

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Phenylketonuria syndrome

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Carpet layer’s knee/housemaid’s knee?

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Prepatellar bursitis

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Clergyman’s knee

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Infrapatellar bursitis

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Dancer’s fracture

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Fracture of base of fifth metatarsal bone

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Gamekeeper’s thumb/skier’s thumb

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Ligamentous disruption of metacarpophalangeal joint

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Golfer’s elbow

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Medial epicondylitis

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Jogger’s knee

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Patellofemoral joint pain syndrome

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Jumper’s knee

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patellar tendonopathy

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Moviegoer’s knee - where people attending the movie sit on the aisle so they extend their legs into the isle for ocmfort

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Patellofemoral syndrome - (chondromalacia patellae)

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Nursemaid’s arm

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Pulled elbow in child

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Policeman’s heel

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Plantar fascitis

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Runner’s knee?

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Iliotibial band tendonitis

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Soccer toes -Black or bruised toe nails due to trauma

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Subungal haematoma

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tennis elbow

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Lateral epicondylitis

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Tennis leg/monkey muscle tear

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Torn medial head gastrocnemius

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Washerwoman’s sprain

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De Quervain tenosynovitis

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Muzzle face…

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The distribution of peri-oral dermatitis

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Nettle rash?

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Hives or urticaria

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Hell raiser personality?

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Borderline personality

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Mad dog personality?

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Impulsive antisocial

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Pickwickian syndrome?

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Respiratory failure to gross obesity

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Pigeon toes?

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In toe-ing due to metatarsus varus, internal tibial torsion or medial femoral torsion

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Popeye syndrome?

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Aka ‘Drummer’s forearm’— fascioscapulohumeral dystrophy: also appearance from a form of brachial plexus palsy

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Port-wine stain?

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Capillary malformation?

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Pulseless disease?

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Takasayu Arteritis

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Q fever?

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Query fever - a zoonosis due to Coxiella burnetti

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Rachitic rosary on chest?

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A ring of costo-chondral beads seen in rickets

117
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Red cherry spot at macular

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Central retinal vein occlusion

118
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Red man syndrome

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Injection of IV vancomycin

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Risus sardonicus

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Tetanus

120
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Saddle nose

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Congenital syphillis

121
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Saint vitus dance -purposeless body movements subsiding without neurological complications (St Vitus is patron saint of dancers and children)

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Sydenham chorea

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Sausage digits?

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Swollen arthritic fingers of seronegative spondylarthropathy (e..g psoriasis)

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Scalded skin syndorme

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peeling infected skin due to Staph Auerus

124
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Pain and localised tenderness over distal posteromedial border of tibia in active athletes

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Shin splints - tibial stress syndrome

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Symptoms of nasal, eye and other mucous membrane irritation, dry skin and headache associated with air conditioning in ‘sealed’ buildings

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Sick building syndrome

126
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A secondary malignant tumour in the umbilicus suggestive of intra- abdominal malignancy

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Sister Mar Joseph’s nodule

127
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Snarling smile, especially with exercise?

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Myasthenia gravis

128
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Cavernous hemangioma…

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Strawberry naevus

129
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Stiff trunk and abdomen of an autoimmune neuromuscular disorder

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Stiff person syndrome

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Stork bite/salmon patch

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Naevus flammus (dilated capillaries on face, eyelids and neck)

131
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Slapped face or cheek?

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Erythema infectiosum

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Sleepning sickness

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The somnolent state associated with African Trypanosomiasis

133
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Snail track ulcer

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Found in the oral mucous membrane in secondary syphillis

134
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Splinter haemorrhage

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Infective endocarditis

135
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Slummer leg = golfer’s vasulitis

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An erythematous pruritic rash on the legs after prolonged exercise such as in golf and hiking— invariably in summer months

136
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Sun downing -

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Mild to moderate delirium at night

137
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Swimmer’s itch…?

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Schistosomiasis

138
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Black or hairy tongue

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Dark elongated filiform papillae

139
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Changing patters of erythema and hyperkeratosis on the surface of the tongue (probably hypersensitivity reaction)

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Geographic tongue (erythema migrans)

140
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Nicotine staining on tongue and palate

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Pipe smoker’s tongue

141
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Wing beating (flapping) - asterixis

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Hepatic failure

142
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Pill rolling tremor

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Parkinson’s disease

143
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Too many toes syndrome

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Rupture of tibialis posterior muscle

144
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Two lovely black eyes (spontaneous)—also ‘panda eyes’

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Amyloidosis

145
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Black (Black on standing) urine

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Alkaptonuria

146
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Red (on standing in sunlight) urine

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Porphyria

147
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Vietnamese time bomb

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Meliodosis

148
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Dysarthrai + intention tremor + nystagmys

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Cerebellar disease (typical nystagmus)

149
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Tremor (postural or action) + head tremore + absence of parkinsonian features

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Parkinson disease

150
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Dementia + Myoclonus + ataxia

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Creutz jakob disease

151
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Dysphagia + Dysphonia /Dysarthra + spastic tongue

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Pseudobulbar palsy

152
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Typical facies (temporalis atrophy and frontal baldin_ + muscle weakness + cataracts =

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Myotonic dystrophy

153
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Ataxia + Opthalmoplegia + areflexia

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Miller-Fischer Variant of GBS

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UMN signs + LMN signs + fasciculations

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Motor Neurone disease

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