| Kehr's sign |
severe pain in the left shoulder in some cases of rupture of the spleen.
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| Kernig's sign |
a sign of meningitis: the patient can easily and completely extend the leg when in dorsal decubitus position but not when in the sitting posture or when lying with the thigh flexed upon the abdomen.
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| Keen's sign |
increased diameter of the leg at the malleoli in Pott's fracture of the fibula.
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| Kellock's sign |
increase of the vibration of the ribs on sharp percussion with the right hand, the left hand being placed firmly on the thorax under the nipple; a sign of pleural effusion.
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| Kerandel's sign |
deep hyperesthesia accompanied by pain, often retarded, after some slight blow upon a bony projection of the body; seen in African trypanosomiasis.
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