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Pathognomonic Sign & Symptoms

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Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Pulsating abdominal mass
Abruption Placenta
Painful bleeding, board-like abdomen
Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Auer rod
Acute Renal Failure
Azotemia, uremic frost on skin
Addison's Disease
Bronze-like skin pigmentation
Amoebiasis
Mucoid, foul explosive blood tinged stool
Angina Pectoris
Levine's Sign (hand clutching of chest)
Appendicitis
Rebound tenderness (McBurney's Point), Rovsing Sign (Right Lower quadrant pain with palpation in Left lower quadrant)
Arthritis
Buotonniere deformity, swan neck deformity, ulnar drft, Bouchard's nodes
Ascariasis
Vomiting, passing out of worms
Asthma
Wheezing on expirations
Atrial Septal Defect
Murmur heard high on chest
Autism
Rocking, spinning, routines
Bacterial Vaginosis
Grayish, white discharge, malodorous
Basilar Fracture
Raccoon Eyes
Breech Birth
Meconium staining
Buerger's Disease (Thromboangitis Obliterans)
Intermittent claudication
Bulimia Nervosa
Chipmunk facies (parotid gland swelling)
Candidiasis
Cheeselike Discharge
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Cherry pink flushed face, carbon in the secretions, non productive cough
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Jack Hammer Syndrome (Tinel's Sign)
Cataract
Blurry Vision/Hazy Vision, cloudy vision
Celiac Disease
Gluten Sensitivity, watery, pale, foul smelling stool
Chicken Pox
Vesiculopapular rash
Cholecystitis
Murphy's Sign (pain on deep inspiration when inflamed gallbladder is palpated)
Cholera
Rice-watery stool, Washer's woman hands
Chronic hemorrhagic pancreatitis
Grey Turner's Sign (ecchymosis in flank area)
Cushing's Syndrome
Moon face, Buffalo Hump
CVA
Homonymous Hemianopsia
Cystocele and Rectocele
Feeling of fullness at vagina
Cytomegalovirus infection
Owl's eye appearance of inclusion bodies
Dengue Fever
Herman's Sign
Detached Retina
Flashes of light, shadow with curtain across the vision
Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Acetone Breath
Diabetes Mellitus
3Ps (Polydipsia, polyphagia, polyuria)
Diphtheria
Pseudomembrane on tonsils, pharynx, and nasal cavity
Down Syndrome
Protruding tongue, saddle nose, brushfield's spots, single crease on palm
Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy
Gower's Sign
Emphysema
Barrel Chest
Encephalitis
Decorticate and decerebate rigidity
Enterobiasis
Nocturnal itchiness
Failure to Thrive (FTT)
Radar gaze
GERD
Barret esophagus, heartburn
Glaucoma
Tunnel Vision
Gonorrhea
Burning sensation upon urination
Gouty Arthritis
Formation of tophi at the earlobe and usually the big toe
Gullian-Barre
Ascending Paralysis
Hemophilia
Hemarthroses
Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP)
A tetrade of rash, arthralgia, abdominal pain and kidney disease in a child
Hepatic Disease
Asterixis, jaundice, icteric sclera
Herpes Zoster
Regional painful rash
Hirschprung's Disease (Megacolon)
Ribbon-like, foul smelling stool
H-Mole
Grapelike growth, large on abdomen
Hyperthyroidism
Exophtalmos
Hypocalcemia
Trousseau Sign and Chvostek Sign, hyperreflexia
Increased IOP
Doll's eye
Intestinal Obstruction
No passage of meconium
Intussusception
Sausage shaped mass, dance sign, currant jelly-like stool
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Typical triad: abdominal pain with tenderness on palpation, altered bowel habits, absence of detectable disease
Kawasaki Disease
Strawberry tongue
Kleibsiella Pneumonia
Red gelatinous sputum
Klinefelter's Sundrome
XXY in males
Leprosy
Leonine facies (thickened lion-like facial skin that is contracted), Nerve involvement with acid fast bacilli
Leptospirosis
orange eyes
liver cirrhosis
spider angioma
Lyme's disease
Bull eye;s rash
Malaria
Stepladder fever. Cycle of hot stage (high fever) followed by diaphoretic stage (sweating), and then cold stage (chilling)
Measles
Koplik's Spots
Meniere's disease
Whirling Vertigo, tinnitus
Mengingitis
Kernig's Sign and Brudzinski's sign
Meningococcemia
purple petechiae
Monilliasis (vaginal yeast infection)
White Cheesy dicharge
Multiple Sclerosis
Descending weakness, Charcot's sign (intention tremor, nystagmus, scanning speech)
Mumps
Swollen parotid gland
Myastenia Gravis (MG)
Ptosis (inability to open upper eyelids), nasal smile
Myocardial infarction
Levine's Sign
Neurofrinromatosis
White Patches on Tongue
Osteoporosis
Kyphosis
Pancreatitis
Cullen's Sign (bluish discoloration of umbilicus)
Parkinson's Disease
Pill-rolling tremors
Patent Ductus arteriosus
Machine-like Murmur
Pericarditis
Pericardial friction rub
Pernicious anemia
Red beefy tongue, do Schilling's test
Pertusis
Paroxysmal or violent cough without intervening inhalation followed by an inspiratory whoop
Phemphigus Vulgaris
Nikolsky Sign
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Blue eyes
Placenta Previa
Painless bright red bleeding
Pleural effusion
Stony dull percussion
Pneumonia
Greenish Rusty colored sputum
Poliomyelitis
Poker's sign, Haynes Sign
Rabies
Hydrophobia/photophobia
Retinoblastoma
Cat's eye reflex
Rheumatic Fever
Aschoff nodules
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Rose colored macules throughout body (including palms)
Scabies
Weeping lesions, itching
Scarlet fever
Raspberry tongue
Sickle Cell Anemia
Painful episodes or vaso-occlusive crisis
Systemic lupus Erythematosus
Butterfly rash
Tetanus
Risus sardonicus (abnormal sustained spasm of the facial muscles--lockjawed). Chvostek sign (muscle twitching face), Torsseau's sign (Jerky movements)
Tracheoesophageal fistula
3 C's: coughing, choking, and cyanosis
Trichominiasis
Malodorous, thin yellow discharge
Turner's Syndrome
Karyotype in females, webbed neck, gonadal dysgenesis
Typhoid Fever
Rose spots in abdomen
Whipple's Disease
Oculo-masticatory myorrhthmia
Pyloric Stenosis
Olive shaped Mass
Hyperpituitarism
Carotenemia-discoloration of skin; xanthemia (yellowing of skin)
Tetralogy of Fallot
See clubbing of fingernails; Composed of VPOR: Ventricular septal defect, pulmonary stenosis, overriding aorta, and right ventricular hypertrophy
Pulmonary TB
low grade fever in afternoon
Diverticular disease
Cramping, colicky pain in LLQ
Hydrocephalus
Setting sun eyes
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