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19 Cards in this Set
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Beck's triad
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Jugular venous distention, muffled heart sounds, and hypotension in cardiac tamponade
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Brudzinski's sign
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Pain on neck flexion with meningeal irritation (meningitis)
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Charcot's triad
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fevers or chills, jaundice, and RUQ pain with cholangitis
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Chvostek's sign
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Tapping on the facial nerve elicits tetany in hypocalcemia
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Courvoisier's sign
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a painless, palpable gallbaldder plus jaundice equals pancreatic cancer
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Cullen's sign
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bluish discoloration of periumbilical area from retropertioneal hemorrhage (pancreatitis)
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Cushing's reflex
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hypertension, bradycardia, and irregular respirations with high intracranial pressure
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Grey Turner's sign
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bluish discoloration of flank from retroperitoneal hemorrhage (think pancreatitis)
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Homan's sign
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calf pain on forced dorsiflexion of the foot with deep venous thrombosis
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Kehr's sign
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pain in the left shoulder with ruptured spleen
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Leriche's syndrome
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claudication and atrophy of the buttocks with impotence (aortoiliac occlusive disease)
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McBurney's sign
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tenderness at McBurney's point with appendicitis
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Murphy's sign
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arrest of inspiration when palpating under the rib cage on the right with cholecystitis
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Ortolani's sign/test
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palpable or audible clikc in congenital hip dysplasia caused by abducting infant's flexed hips
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Prehn's sign
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elevation of a painful testicle that relieves pain in epididymitis (vs testicular torsion)
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Rovsing's sign
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pain at McBurney's point in appendicitis that is caused by pushing on left lower quadrant
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Tinel's sign
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paresthesias in carpal tunnel syndrome elicited by tapping on the volar surface of the wrist
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Trousseau's sign
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carpopedal spasm (tetany) in hypocalcemia caused by pumping up a blood pressure cuff
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Virchow's triad
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stasis, endothelial damage, and hypercoagulability (deep venous thrombosis risk factors)
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