Famous Signs and Symptoms
Famous signs and symptoms
- Homan’s Signs
- Pill-rolling tremors
- Crushing, stabbing chest pain that is RELIEVED by nitroglycerin
- Crushing, stabbing pain radiating to left shoulder, neck, and arms. UNRELIEVED by nitroglycerin
- DESCENDING muscle weakness, ptosis (drooping of the eyelids)
- Charcot’s Triad: Nystagmus, intentional tremor, and dysarthria
- Tunnel Vision
- Cullen’s Sign (ecchymosis of the umbilicus)
- Grey Turner’s Sign (bruising of the flank)
- ASCENDING muscle weakness
- Watch out for respiratory depression: Shallow breathing, decreased vital capacity.
- Moon Face appearance and buffalo hump
- Acetone Breath
- Koplik’s Spots (clustered white lesions on buccal mucosa)
- Barrel Chest
- Washing machine-like murmur
- Night sweats
- That red beefy tongue always shows up
- Olive-shaped mass on baby’s belly
- Forceful projectile vomiting
- Trousseau’s sign
- Chvostek’s sign
- Tetany
- Exophthalmos (eye bulging)
- Think high metabolism
- Red, Butterfly-shaped rash over cheeks and nose
- Pica (eating things not considered food)
- Examples: Ice, soil, clay, or starch
- Protein in the urine
- Hypertension
- Edema
- Hemolysis
- Elevated Liver enzymes
- Low Platelets
- McBurney’s point tenderness
- Rovsing’s sign
- Psoas Sign
- Intermittent claudication
- Back Pain
- Hypercyanotic “tet” spells
- Weight
- Weight
- Weight is most likely the answer