COMMON TESTS, SIGNS:
Alphabetic Listings of Tests, Signs, Symptoms and Syndromes
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
- 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