List of eponymous medical signs

Eponymous medical signs are medical signs that are named after a person or persons, usually the physicians who first described them, but occasionally named after a famous patient with the signs.

Contents

1 Listed alphabetically 1.1 A 1.2 B 1.3 C 1.4 D 1.5 E 1.6 F 1.7 G 1.8 H 1.9 J 1.10 K 1.11 L 1.12 M 1.13 N 1.14 O 1.15 P 1.16 Q 1.17 R 1.18 S 1.19 T 1.20 U 1.21 V 1.22 W

Listed alphabetically

A

• Aaron sign – Charles Dettie Aaron
• Abadie's sign – Jean Marie Charles Abadie
• Abadie's symptom – Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie
• Abderhalden reaction – Emil Abderhalden
• Abelin reaction – Isaak Abelin
• Abel's test – Dietrich Abels
• Addis count – Thomas Addis
• Adie pupil – William John Adie
• Adson's sign – Alfred Adson
• Alexander's law
• Allen's test – Edgar Van Nuys Allen
• Apley grind test – Alan Graham Apley
• Argyll Robertson pupils – Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson
• Arneth count – Josef Arneth
• Ascheim-Zondek test – Selmar Ascheim , Bernhard Zondek
• Aschoff body – Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff
• Ashby techniques – Winifred Ashby
• Auberger's blood group – Auberger (patient)
• Auenbrugger's sign – Josef Leopold Auenbrugger
• Auer rods – John Auer
• Auspitz's sign – Heinrich Auspitz
• Austin Flint murmur – Austin Flint
• Australian antigen – Aboriginal patient

B

• Babinski sign – Joseph Babinski
• Baghdad boil – Baghdad
• Bainbridge reflex – Francis Arthur Bainbridge
• Bairnsdale ulcer – Bairnsdale
• Balbiani rings – Edouard-Gérard Balbiani
• Ballance's sign – Charles Alfred Ballance
• Bárány test – Robert Bárány
• Barlow's maneuver – Thomas Barlow (medicine)
• Bart hemoglobin – Barts Hospital
• Bastian-Bruns sign – Henry Charlton Bastian , Ludwig Bruns
• Battle's sign – William Henry Battle
• Beau's lines – Joseph Honoré Simon Beau
• Beck's triad – Claude Schaeffer Beck
• Becker's sign – Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker
• Beevor's sign – Charles Edward Beevor
• Bekhterev-Mendel reflex – Vladimir Bekhterev, Kurt Mendel
• Bence Jones protein – Henry Bence Jones
• Benedict solution – Stanley Rossiter Benedict
• Berger rhythm – Hans Berger
• Bezold-Jarisch reflex – Albert von Bezold , Adolf Jarisch
• Bielschowsky's tilt – Alfred Bielschowsky
• Bing's sign – Paul Robert Bing
• Biot's breathing – C. Biot
• Bitot's spots – Pierre Bitot
• Bjerrum scotoma – Jannik Peterson Bjerrum
• Blumberg sign – Jacob Moritz Blumberg
• Boas's sign – Ismar Isidor Boas
• Bodansky unit – Meyer Bodansky
• Bombay blood group – Bombay
• Boston sign – L.N. Boston
• Bouchard's nodes – Charles-Joseph Bouchard
• Bracht-Wachter bodies – Erich Bracht , H. Wächter
• Branham's sign – Henry Branham
• Braxton Hicks contraction – John Braxton Hicks
• Brewer infarcts – George Emerson Brewer
• Broadbent inverted sign – William Broadbent
• Broadbent law – William Broadbent
• Broadbent sign – William Broadbent
• Broca aphasia – Paul Pierre Broca
• Brodie-Trendelenburg test – Benjamin Collins Brodie , Friedrich Trendelenburg
• Brudzinski sign – Jósef Brudziñski
• Bruit de Roger – Henri-Louis Roger
• Bruns ataxia – Ludwig Bruns
• Brushfield spots – Thomas Brushfield
• Burton line – Henry Burton

C

• Cabot rings – Richard Cabot
• Caput Medusae – Medusa
• Carey Coombs murmur – Carey Coombs
• Carnett's test – John Carnett
• Carvallo sign – José Carvallo
• Casal collar – Gaspar Casal
• Casoni test – Tommaso Casoni
• Celsus signs of inflammation – Aurelius Cornelius Celsus
• Chaddock reflex – Charles Gilbert Chaddock
• Chadwick sign – James Read Chadwick
• Charcot's triad &ndashJean-Martin Charcot
• Charcot-Leyden crystals – Jean-Martin Charcot, Ernst Viktor von Leyden
• Cheyne-Stokes respiration – John Cheyne , William Stokes
• Churchill-Cope reflex – Edward Delos Churchill , Oliver Cope
• Chvostek's sign – František Chvostek
• Clark sign – Alonzo Clark
• Claybrook sign – Edwin Claybrook
• Clutton's joints – Henry Hugh Clutton
• Codman's triangle – Ernest Armory Codman
• Comby sign – Jules Comby
• Coombs test – Robin Coombs
• Coons fluorescent antibody method – Albert Coons
• Corrigan pulse – Dominic John Corrigan
• Councilman bodies – William Councilman
• Courvoisier's law – Ludwig Georg Courvoisier
• Crighton-Browne sign – James Crighton-Browne
• Crowe sign – Samuel Crowe
• Cruveihiler-Baumgarten bruit – Léon Cruveilhier , Paul Clemens von Baumgarten
• Cullen's sign – Thomas Cullen
• Curschmann spirals – Hans Curschmann
• Cushing's triad – Harvey Cushing

D

• Dahl's sign
• Darymple sign
• Dance's sign
• Darier's sign
• Dawson's fingers
• De Musset's sign
• Dennie's lines
• Destot's sign
• Dix-Hallpike test
• Döhle bodies
• Doi's sign
• Dunphy sign
• Duroziez's sign

E

• Elschnig spots
• Epstein's pearls
• Erienmeyer's flask deformity
• Ewart's sign

F

• Finkelstein's Test
• Forschimer spots
• Fothergill's sign
• Fox's sign
• Frank's sign
• Friedreich's sign
• Froment's sign

G

• Gallavardin dissociation
• Gandy-Gamma nodules
• Gerhard's sign
• Goetz sign
• Gond's maneuver
• Goodell's sign
• Goodsall's rule
• Gordon's maneuver
• Gottron's papules
• Gower's maneuver
• Gramham Steell murmur
• Grey Turner's sign
• Griffith's sign
• Grotton's lesions
• Gunn's sign

H

• Hamman's sign
• Hampton's hump
• Hannington-Kiff sign
• Harrison's groove
• Hatchcock's sign
• Heberden's nodes
• Hegar's sign
• Hess test
• Hill's sign
• Hippocratic fingers
• Hoffman's sign
• Hollenhorst plaques
• Holmes-Adie syndrome
• Homan's sign
• Hoover’s sign
• Howship-Romberg sign
• Hutchinson freckle
• Hutchinson pupil
• Hutchinson's sign
• Hutchinson's teeth

J

• Janeway lesions
• Jendrassik maneuver
• Joffroy sign
• John Thomas sign
• Jolly test
• Jones criteria

K

• Kanavel's sign
• Kayser-Fleischer ring
• Kehr's sign
• Kelly's sign
• Kerley A lines
• Kerley B lines
• Kerley C lines
• Kernig sign
• Koebner's phenomenon
• Koeppe's nodules
• Koplik's spots
• Korotkoff sounds
• Kussmaul breathing a.k.a. Kussmaul's respiration
• Kussmaul's sign
• Kveim-Siltzbach test

L

• Lachman maneuver
• Ladin's sign
• Lancisi's sign
• Lasegue's sign
• Leopold's maneuver
• Leser-Trelat sign
• Levine's sign
• Lhermitte's sign
• Lisch nodules
• Lisker's sign
• Litten's sign
• Louvel's sign
• Lowenberg's sign

M

• Macewen's sign
• Marcus Gunn pupil
• Marie's sign
• Markle sign
• Mayne's sign
• McBurney's sign
• McConnell's sign
• McDonald's sign
• McMurray test
• Means-Lerman scratch
• Mees's lines
• Mentzer index
• Miller-Fisher test
• Möbius's sign
• Muehrckle's nails
• Mulder's sign
• Müller's maneuver
• Müller's sign
• Murphy's punch sign
• Murphy's sign
• Myerson's sign

N

• Nardi test
• Nelson's syndrome
• Nikolsky's sign

O

• Oppenheim's sign
• Ortolani's sign
• Osborn wave
• Osler's nodes
• Osler's sign

P

• Palla's sign
• Pastia's sign
• Patrick sign
• Pemberton's sign
• Phalen's maneuver
• Piskacek's sign
• Plummer's nail
• Pratt's sign

Q

• Queckenstedt's maneuver
• Quincke's sign

R

• Reynold's pentad
• Riesman's sign
• Riggler's sign
• Rinne test
• Romana's sign
• Romberg test
• Rosenbach's sign
• Roth’s spots
• Rovsing's sign
• Rumpel-Leede sign
• Rusell's sign

S

• Salus's sign
• Schafer's maneuver
• Schamroth's window test
• Schilling test
• Schirmer's test
• Schober test
• Siegrist streaks
• Sims-Huhner test
• Sister Mary Joseph sign
• Spurling's test
• Stellwag's sign
• Still's murmur
• Stransky's sign
• Stroop test
• Strümpell's sign
• Susac syndrome

T

• Terry's nails
• Thompson's test
• Tinel's sign
• Traube's sign
• Trendelenburg's gait
• Trendelenburg's sign
• Trousseau's sign

U

• Uhthoff's phenomenon
• Unterberger's stepping test

V

• Virchow's triad
• Virchow-Robin spaces
• Volkmann's contracture
• Von Braun-Fernwalds sign
• Von Graefe sign

W

• Wada test
• Waddell's signs
• Watson's water hammer pulse
• Whipple's triad
• Wickham's striae
• Widal test
• Winterbottom's sign
• Wolff-Parkinson-White triad
• Wright's maneuver