| Stewart, Thomas Grainger | <person> 20th century English neurologist, 1877-1957. See: Stewart-Holmes sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Thomas | Hugh Owen, British surgeon, 1834-1891. See: Thomas splint. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Thomas splint | A long leg splint extending from a ring at the hip to beyond the foot, allowing traction to a fractured leg, for emergencies and transportation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Elliott, Thomas | <person> British physician, 1877-1961. See: Elliott's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Emmet, Thomas | <person> U.S. Gynecologist, 1828-1919. See: Emmet's needle, Emmet's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| James, Thomas | <person> U.S. Cardiologist and physiologist, *1925. See: James fibres, James tracts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Jonnesco, Thomas | <person> Roumanian surgeon, 1860-1926. See: Jonnesco's fossa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Young, Thomas | <person> English physician and physicist, 1773-1829. See: Young's modulus, Young's rule, Young-Helmholtz theory of colour vision. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kirk, Norman Thomas | <person> U.S. Army surgeon, 1888-1960. See: Kirk's amputation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Fogarty, Thomas | <person> U.S. Thoracic surgeon, *1934. See: Fogarty catheter, Fogarty clamp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lauth, Thomas | <person> German anatomist and surgeon, 1758-1826. See: Lauth's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Aaron's sign | <clinical sign> In acute appendicitis, a referred pain or feeling of distress in the epigastrium or precordial region on continuous firm pressure over McBurney's point. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Abadie's sign of tabes dorsalis | Insensibility to pressure over the tendo achillis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Abrahams' sign | <clinical sign> An obsolete sign: Rales and other adventitious sounds, changes in the respiratory murmurs, and increase in the whispered sound can be heard on auscultation over the acromial end of the clavicle some time before they become audible at the apex; heard primarily in pulmonary tuberculosis affecting the apical portion of the lung, a dull-flat note, i.e., one between the normal dullness at the right apex and absolute flatness, heard on percussion in that region, indicating progress from incipient to advanced tuberculosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| accessory sign | <clinical sign> A finding frequently but not consistently present in a disease. Synonym: assident sign. (05 Mar 2000) |