| Epstein's sign | <clinical sign> Lid retraction in an infant giving it a frightened expression and a "wild glance." See: setting sun sign, Collier's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Erb sign | <clinical sign> Increased electric excitability of the muscles to the galvanic current, and frequently to the faradic, in tetany. Synonym: Erb-Westphal sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Erb-Westphal sign | <clinical sign> Abolition of the patellar tendon reflex, in tabes and certain other diseases of the spinal cord, and occasionally also in brain disease. Synonym: Erb sign, Westphal's phenomenon, Westphal's sign, Westphal-Erb sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Erichsen's sign | <clinical sign> In sacroiliac disease, pain is felt when sudden pressure approximates the iliac bones; this sign is not present in hip disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Trousseau's sign | <clinical sign> In latent tetany, the occurrence of carpopedal spasm accompanied by paresthesia elicited when the upper arm is compressed, as by a tourniquet or a blood pressure cuff. (05 Mar 2000) |
| trumpet sign | <radiology> Enlargement of the nerve root secondary to oedema, seen in disc herniation (HNP) (12 Dec 1998) |
| Trunecek's sign | <clinical sign> Palpable impulse of the subclavian artery near the point of origin of the sternomastoid muscle in cases of aortic sclerosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Escherich's sign | <clinical sign> In hypoparathyroidism (latent tetany) tapping the skin at the angle of the mouth causes protrusion of the lips. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Jackson's sign | <clinical sign> During quiet respiration the movement of the paralysed side of the chest may be greater than that of the opposite side, while in forced respiration the paralysed side moves less than the other. Origin: J. H. Jackson (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ewart's sign | <clinical sign> In large pericardial effusions, an area of dullness with bronchial breathing and bronchophony below the angle of the left scapula. Synonym: Pins' sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ewing's sign | <clinical sign> Dullness on percussion to the inner side of the angle of the left scapula, denoting an accumulation of fluid in the pericardium behind the heart, tenderness at the upper inner angle of the orbit at the point of attachment of the pulley of the superior oblique muscle, denoting closure of the outlet of the frontal sinus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Joffroy's sign | <clinical sign> Disorder of the arithmetical faculty (the person being unable to do simple sums in addition or multiplication) in the early stages of organic brain disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| external malleolar sign | <clinical sign> When the external malleolar skin area is irritated, extension of the great toe occurs in cases of organic disease of the corticospinal reflex paths. Synonym: Chaddock reflex, external malleolar sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| eyelash sign | <clinical sign> In a case of apparent unconsciousness due to functional disease, such as conversion hysteria, stroking the eyelashes will occasion movement of the lids, but no such reflex will occur in case of severe organic brain lesion such as apoplexy, fracture of the skull, or other traumatism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Faget's sign | <clinical sign> A slow pulse with an elevated temperature, often seen in yellow fever. (05 Mar 2000) |