Sign

(sin). In pathology, any diagnostic symptom. In pharmacy, a conventional character implying a direction or order. A table of Eponymic Signs and Symptoms is appended. See Ataxia , Signs of; Death, Signs of, etc. S. -language, the method of intercommunication employed by deaf-mutes, in which ideas are communicated by means of signs. (sig/ -mat-izm, sig-mat-iz' TABLE OF EPONYMIC SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS Description. How Elicited. OF DISEASES. Disease Present in. Exophthalmic goiter. Abadie's sign. Spasm of the levator palpebrae superior is muscle. Allis's sign. Relaxation bej Inspection, tween the of crest the of fascia the ilium and the trochanter major. Fracture of the neck of the femur. Argyll-Robertson pupil. A Locomotor ataxia. Baccelli's sign loquy). Reverberation of the whis- Whispered voice of patient pered voice, heard through, auscultated through the the chest-wall. chest. Baruch's sign. The resistance of the rectal temperature to a bath of 750 for fifteen minutes with friction. Bienner's change j of sound. See s change sound (in this table).. Brach-Romberg symptom. A pupil that acts in accommodation but not to light. Immersion in bath of 750 F. peculiar clink sometimes Auscultation, heard to the right of the apex-beat of the heart. Pleural effusion. Typhoid fever. Cardiac hypertrophy. See Romberg'' s symptom. Hem i paraplegia with hem i anesthesia of opposite side. rtou's sign. Blue line at junction of teeth with gums. A succe ion of respirations becoming progre ively shorter and more shallow, then an intermi ion of varying duration, followed by progre ive increase in depth and length of respirations. u Usual tests for accommo' dation and light. Said to monicbe(?). pat hog no of own-Sequard's laralysis. neyne-Stokes' respiration. Inspection. Significance Visual examination. Lesion of lateral half of spinal cord. Chronic lead-poisoning. In various affections in which the brain is implicated. Cerebral edema. Uremia. Approaching Name. Description. How Elicited. Disease Present in. DISEASES. Continued. Significance. Post-operative tetany. Chvostek's sign. Sudden spasm of one side of A slight tap upon the side the face. of the face. Clark's sign. Obliteration of the hepatic dulne due to tympanitic distention of the abdomen. Percu ion. Appendicitis and other peritoneal inflammations. Corrigan's line.