| Bezold's symptom | Inflammatory oedema at the tip of the mastoid process in mastoiditis. Synonym: Bezold's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Bezold, Albert von | <person> German physiologist, 1836-1868. See: Bezold's ganglion, Bezold-Jarisch reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Bezold, Friedrich | <person> German otologist, 1842-1908. See: Bezold's abscess, Bezold's mastoiditis, Bezold's sign, Bezold's symptom, Bezold's triad. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bezold-Jarisch reflex | A reflex with afferent and efferent pathways in the vagus, originating in unidentified chemoreceptors in the heart and resulting in sinus bradycardia, hypotension, and probable peripheral vasodilation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bezold's abscess | An abscess deep in the neck parapharyngeal space associated with suppuration in the mastoid tip cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bezold's ganglion | An aggregation of nerve cells in the interatrial septum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bezold's mastoiditis | Mastoiditis with perforation medially into the digastric groove and forming a deep neck abscess. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bezold's sign | Inflammatory oedema at the tip of the mastoid process in mastoiditis. Synonym: Bezold's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bezold's triad | Diminished perception of the deeper tones, retarded bone conduction, and negative Rinne's test, pointing, in the absence of objective signs, to otosclerosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| accessory symptom | A symptom that usually but not always accompanies a certain disease, as distinguished from a pathognomonic symptom. Synonym: assident symptom, concomitant symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| accidental symptom | Any morbid phenomenon coincidentally occurring in the course of a disease, but having no relation with it. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assident symptom | A symptom that usually but not always accompanies a certain disease, as distinguished from a pathognomonic symptom. Synonym: assident symptom, concomitant symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Baumes symptom | Pain behind the sternum in angina pectoris. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bolognini's symptom | A feeling of crepitation on gradually increasing pressure on the abdomen in cases of measles. Cardinal symptom, the primary or major symptom of diagnostic importance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Macewen's symptom | <clinical sign> Percussion of the skull gives a cracked-pot sound in cases of hydrocephalus. Synonym: Macewen's symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rainbow symptom | A yellowish white ring surrounding the optic disk, indicating atrophy of the choroid in glaucoma. Synonym: glaucomatous ring. A halo surrounding lights, caused by corneal oedema in glaucoma. Synonym: rainbow symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |