PATHOGNOMONIC SIGNS(for Medical Doctors or Medicine Students)

1. COPD - Barrel-Chested

2. Pneumonia - Greenish Rusty Sputum

3. Pernicious Anemia - Beefy Red Tongue (Schilling’s Test)

4. Kawasaki Disease. - Strawberry Tongue

5. Typhoid - Stepladder Fever

6. Typhoid - Rose Spot

7. Tetany - Chvostek Sign (Muscle Twitching Face)

- Trosseau’s Sign (Jerky Mov’ts)

8. Pancreatitis - Cullen Sign (Bluish discoloration preumbilical area)

9. Appendicitis - McBurney’s Point (rebound tenderness)

- Rovsing Sign (RLQ pain w/ palpation in LLQ)

- Psoas Sign(pain on lying down putting pressure on MB pt)

10. Thrombophlebitis - Homan’s Sign

 11. Hepatitis - Icteric Sclera (yellowish discoloration of sclera)

12. Meningitis - Burdzinski Sign (Pain on nape)

- Kernig Sign (pain on leg/ knee area)

13. Pyloric Stenosis - Olive-Shaped Mass

14. Hyperthyroidism - Exopthalmus

15. Addison’s Dse. - Bronze-like skin

16. Cushing Syndrome- Buffalo Hump

17. Cholera - Rice Watery Stool

18. SLE - Butterfly Rashes

19. Leprosy - Leoning Face (contracted face)

20. Bulimia Nervosa - Chipmunk Face

21. Liver Cirrhosis - Spider Angioma

22. Asthma - Wheezing Inspiration

23. Hyperpituitarism - CAROTENEMIA (Discoloration of skin)

- XANTHAMIA

24. Down Syndrome- Single Crease on Palm

25.TOF - Clubbing of Fingernails

Ventricular Septal Defect

Pulmonary Stenosis

Overriding of Aorta

Right Ventricular Hypertrophy

26.Cataract - Blurry Vision / Hizzy Vision

27.Glucoma - Tunnel-like Vision

28. PTB - Low grade fever in a ternoon

29. Cholecystitis- Murphy’s Sign (pain RUQ)

30. Myasthemia Gravis (MG) – Ptosis (inability to open upper eyelids)

 31. Dengue - Petechiae

32. Parkinson’s Dse. - Pill Rolling Tremors

33. MI - Levine’s Sign (Clutching of the chest)

34. Measles - Koplick’s Spot

Source: Medical Addicts