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Common Medical Tests & Signs
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COMMON TESTS, SIGNS:
Capitalize only the proper name, but not the word “test,” or “sign.” AAMT rules show no apostrophe, though dictators often use the possessive form. You will find alphabetic listings of tests, signs, symptoms, syndromes, and procedures under those headings in a medical dictionary.
LIST A - L
Adson
Ahifeld
Allen Test
Apley
Argyll-Robertson (Eye - pupil)
Arnoux
Auenbrugger
Aufrecht
Babinski
Bacelli
Bamberger
Barany
Barre’s (bar-ay)
Battle
Beccaria
Beck triad
Beclard
Bergman's Triad
Beevor
Behler-Hardy
Bespaloff
Bethea
Bezold
Biderman
Bieg
Bjerrum (jare-um)
Blumer's shelf
Bolt
Bonnet (bone ay)
Bouchard's nodes
Bouillaud
Bragard
Branham
Braun-Fernwald
Braunwald
Braxton Hicks contractions
Brudzinski
Bryant
Cegka
Chaddock
Chadwick
Chandelier
Charcot's Triad
Cheyne-Stokes respirations
Chvostek's sign (shawv-stek)
Cleeman
Cushing Triad
Cullen
D’Amoto
Dejerine
de la Camp
Delmege
Demarquay
Demianoff
de Musset
Desault
DeWees’
Dieuaide
doll's eyes
Drummond
Dupuytren's contracture - sign (doo-pah-tren)
Duroziez
Ellis
Erb
Erichsen
Ewart
Ewing
fabere (fah-bare or fah-bare-ay)
Fajersztagn (fashure-stain)
Frankel
Froment
Gaenslen
Galeazzi
Gauss
Gifford
Golden
Goldthwait
Goodell
Gowers’
Graefe (gray fee)
Granger
Grey Turner
Guilland
Halban
Hamman
Hefke-Turner
Heberden (heard often with “nodes”)(heh-bir-den)
Hegar (hay-gar)
Hicks
Hirshberg
Hoehne sign (ho knee)
Hoffmann's sign/reflex
Holmes’
Homans’
Hope
Horner's syndrome
Hueter
Jacquemier
Janeway lesion
Jurgensen
Kanval
Kanter
Keen
Kehr
Kergaradec
Kernig (cur-nig)
Kerr sign
Koplik
Korotkoff sounds (artery sounds on blood pressure)
Kussmaul respiration (koosh mall)
Kustner
Ladin
Laennec (lay neck)
Lafora
Landou
Langoria
Lasegue (la sayg)
Laugier
Leichtenstern
Leri
Levine
Lhermitte (lure mit or ler mit tay)
Lichtheim
Linder
Lombardi
Lorenz’
Ludloff
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LIST M - Z
Macewen
Maisonneuve mason-oove)
Marcus-Gunn (pupil test)
Marie-Foix
Mari
May
Mayor
McBurney's point/sign
McGinn-White
McMurray
Mercedes Benz
Minor’s
Mobius’
Morquio
Moro reflex - sign
Murphy
Muson
Myerson
Naffziger
Nothnagel
Ober
obturator
Olshausen
Oppenheim
Ortolani test - sign
Oslander
Osler
Osler's node
Pancoast syndrome
Parrot
Pastia
Patrick
Perez’
Pfuhl-Jaffe
Pfuhl
Phalen (fail-en)
Pinard
Piotrowski
Piskacec (pisk-a-check)
Pottenger
psoas
Pulses aternans
Quincke
Quinquad
Ramond
Randall
Rasch
Raynaud's sign - phenomenon - disease
Reusner
Rifkind
Rinman
Rinne sign - test (ears)(rin-ay)
Rivera
Romana
Romberg sign - test
Roser-Braun test
Rotch test
Roussel test
Rovsing sign
Rumpel-Leede
Rumpf
Saenger
Salmon
Sansom
Sarbo
Schick
Schlesinger
Schule
Schwartze
Seidel
Shibley
Siegert
Signorelli
Simon
Sister Mary Joseph's sign/node
Skoda
Spalding
Spurting
Sterle
Sternberg
Stiller
Strumpell
Strunsky
Tarnier
Thomas
Tinel (tin - ELL)
Traube (trobe)
Trendelenburg test - surgical position
Troisier (troy-see-air)
Trousseau
Turin
Unschuld
Vanzetti
Virchow's node
Von Graefe
Wartenberg
Warthin
Weber (weh-ber)
Weber-Rinne test (tuning fork)
Wenckebach (wink-ee-bock)
Wernicke (were-nick-ee)
Westphal sign (west-fail or west-fail)
Whipple's triad - hypoglycemia, CNS, and vasomotor symptoms
Widowitz
Wilder
Williams’
Wreden sign (read-n)
Zaufal
Zugsmith
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