List of eponymous medical signs

Eponymous medical signs are medical signs that are named after a person or persons, usually the physicians who first described them, but occasionally named after a famous patient with the signs.

Letter	Sign	Name	Field	Associated conditions	External link (if no internal link)	Descriptor
A	Aaron sign	Charles Dettie Aaron	surgery	appendicitis
A	Abadie's sign	Jean Marie Charles Abadie
A	Abadie's symptom	Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie
A	Abderhalden reaction	Emil Abderhalden	obstetrics
A	Abelin reaction	Isaak Abelin
A	Addis count	Thomas Addis			(needed)
A	Adie pupil	William John Adie	neurology
A	Adson's sign	Alfred Adson
A	Alexander's law	?
A	Allen's test	Edgar Van Nuys Allen	vascular surgery	arterial supply of the hand
A	Apley grind test	Alan Graham Apley
A	Argyll Robertson pupils	Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson	neurology
A	Arneth count	Josef Arneth
A	Aschheim-Zondek test	Selmar Aschheim, Bernhard Zondek			synd/1834 at Who Named It
A	Aschoff body	Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff
A	Ashby techniques	Winifred Ashby			(needed)
A	Auberger's blood group	Auberger (patient)			(needed)
A	Auenbrugger's sign	Josef Leopold Auenbrugger	cardiology	pericardial effusion	synd/284 at Who Named It
A	Auer rods	John Auer	hematology	acute myeloid leukemia
A	Auspitz's sign	Heinrich Auspitz
A	Austin Flint murmur	Austin Flint	cardiology	aortic regurgitation
A	Australian antigen	Aboriginal patient			(needed)
B	Babinski sign	Joseph Babinski	neurology	abnormal plantar reflex
B	Baghdad boil	Baghdad
B	Bainbridge reflex	Francis Arthur Bainbridge
B	Bairnsdale ulcer	Bairnsdale
B	Balbiani rings	Edouard-Gérard Balbiani			(needed)
B	Ballance's sign	Charles Alfred Ballance			(needed)
B	Bárány test	Robert Bárány			(needed)
B	Barlow's maneuver	Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet			(needed)
B	Bart hemoglobin	Barts Hospital			(needed)
B	Bastian-Bruns sign	Henry Charlton Bastian, Ludwig Bruns			(needed)
B	Battle's sign	William Henry Battle	neurosurgery/traumatology	basilar skull fracture
B	Beau's lines	Joseph Honoré Simon Beau
B	Beck's triad	Claude Schaeffer Beck	cardiology	cardiac tamponade		hypotension, increased central venous pressure (JVP), distant heart sounds
B	Becker's sign	Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker			(needed)
B	Beevor's sign	Charles Edward Beevor
B	Bekhterev-Mendel reflex	Vladimir Bekhterev, Kurt Mendel			(needed)
B	Bence Jones protein	Henry Bence Jones	hematology	multiple myeloma
B	Benedict solution	Stanley Rossiter Benedict
B	Berger rhythm	Hans Berger			(needed)
B	Bezold-Jarisch reflex	Albert von Bezold, Adolf Jarisch			(needed)
B	Bielschowsky's tilt	Alfred Bielschowsky			(needed)
B	Bing's sign	Paul Robert Bing			(needed)
B	Biot's respiration	C. Biot	pulmonology
B	Bitot's spots	Pierre Bitot	ophthalmology	vitamin A deficiency
B	Bjerrum scotoma	Jannik Peterson Bjerrum			(needed)
B	Blumberg sign	Jacob Moritz Blumberg
B	Boas' point	Ismar Isidor Boas			(needed)
B	Boas' sign I	Ismar Isidor Boas
B	Boas' sign II	Ismar Isidor Boas			(needed)
B	Bodansky unit	Meyer Bodansky			(needed)
B	Bombay blood group	Bombay	hematology	blood group
B	Boston's sign	L.N. Boston
B	Bouchard's nodes	Charles-Joseph Bouchard	rheumatology	osteoarthritis
B	Bracht-Wachter bodies	Erich Franz Eugen Bracht, H. Wächter
B	Branham's sign	Henry Branham			(needed)
B	Braxton Hicks contraction	John Braxton Hicks	obstetrics	normal pregnancy
B	Brewer infarcts	George Emerson Brewer			(needed)
B	Broadbent inverted sign	William Broadbent			(needed)
B	Brissaud's reflex	Édouard Brissaud			(needed)
B	Broadbent law	William Broadbent			(needed)
B	Broadbent sign	William Broadbent			(needed)
B	Broca aphasia	Paul Broca	neurology
B	Brodie-Trendelenburg test	Benjamin Collins Brodie, Friedrich Trendelenburg
B	Brudzinski sign	Józef Brudziński	neurology	meningitis
B	Bruit de Roger	Henri-Louis Roger			(needed)
B	Bruns ataxia	Ludwig Bruns			(needed)
B	Brushfield spots	Thomas Brushfield
B	Burton line	Henry Burton	toxicology	lead poisoning
C	Cabot rings	Richard Cabot	hematology	lead poisoning, anaemias
C	Caput medusae	Medusa
C	Cardarelli's sign	?
C	Carey Coombs murmur	Carey Coombs			(needed)
C	Carnett's test	John Carnett			(needed)
C	Carvallo sign	José Carvallo			(needed)
C	Casal collar	Gaspar Casal			(needed)
C	Casoni test	Tommaso Casoni			(needed)
C	Celsus signs of inflammation	Aulus Cornelius Celsus		inflammation
C	Chaddock reflex	Charles Gilbert Chaddock
C	Chadwick sign	James Read Chadwick	obstetrics
C	Charcot's triad	Jean-Martin Charcot	surgery	ascending cholangitis
C	Charcot-Leyden crystals	Jean-Martin Charcot, Ernst Viktor von Leyden
C	Cheyne-Stokes respiration	John Cheyne, William Stokes	palliative care
C	Churchill-Cope reflex	Edward Delos Churchill, Oliver Cope			(needed)
C	Chvostek's sign	František Chvostek	endocrinology	hypocalcemia		tapping over facial nerve elicits abnormal muscle contraction(s)
C	Clark sign	Alonzo Clark			(needed)
C	Claybrook sign	Edwin Claybrook			(needed)
C	Clutton's joints	Henry Hugh Clutton			(needed)
C	Codman's triangle	Ernest Armory Codman
C	Comby sign	Jules Comby			(needed)
C	Coombs test	Robin Coombs	hematology	hemolytic anemia
C	Coons fluorescent antibody method	Albert Coons			(needed)
C	Corrigan pulse	Dominic John Corrigan	cardiology	aortic regurgitation
C	Councilman body	William Councilman
C	Courvoisier's law	Ludwig Georg Courvoisier	gastroenterology	pancreatic cancer
C	Crichton-Browne sign	James Crichton-Browne			(needed)
C	Crowe sign	Samuel Crowe
C	Cruveilhier-Baumgarten bruit	Jean Cruveilhier, Paul Clemens von Baumgarten			(needed)
C	Cullen's sign	Thomas Cullen	surgery	intraabdominal hemorrhage
C	Curschmann spirals	Hans Curschmann
C	Cushing's triad	Harvey Cushing	neurology	raised intracranial pressure
D	Dagher Maneuver	Nabil Dagher	trauma surgery	bimanual palpation of foreign object lodged in pelvis with one digit in an incision lateral to the anus and the other digit inserted in the rectum
D	Dahl's sign	?			[1]
D	Dalrymple sign	?			synd/494 at Who Named It
D	Dance's sign	?			synd/3355 at Who Named It
D	Darier's sign	?
D	Dawson's fingers	?			[2] [3]
D	De Musset's sign	?	cardiology	aortic regurgitation
D	Dennie's lines	?			([4])
D	Destot's sign	?			[5]
D	Dix-Hallpike test	?			synd/3615 at Who Named It
D	Döhle bodies -	Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle
D	Doi's sign	?			[6]
D	Dunphy sign	?			[7]
D	Duroziez's sign	?	cardiology	aortic regurgitation
E	Elschnig spots	Anton Elschnig	ophthalmology	hypertensive retinopathy
E	Epstein's pearls	?
E	Ewart's sign	?		pericardial effusion
F	Finkelstein's test	Harry Finkelstein	rheumatology	DeQuervain's tenosynovitis
F	Fordyce spots	?
F	Forschimer spots	?			(needed)
F	Fothergill's sign	?
F	Fox's sign	?			(needed)
F	Frank's sign	?			(needed)
F	Friedreich's sign	?
F	Froment's sign	?	neurology	ulnar nerve palsy
G	Gallavardin dissociation	?			(needed)
G	Gandy-Gamma nodules	?			(needed)
G	Gerhard's sign	?			(needed)
G	Goetz sign	?			(needed)
G	Gond's maneuver	?			(needed)
G	Goodell's sign	?	obstetrics
G	Goodsall's rule	?
G	Gordon's maneuver	?			(needed)
G	Gottron's papules	?	rheumatology	dermatomyositis
G	Gowers' sign (Gowers' maneuver)	William Richard Gowers	neurology	muscular dystrophy
G	Graefe's sign	Albrecht von Gräfe	endocrinology/ophthalmology	Graves disease
G	Graham Steell murmur	?			(needed)
G	Grey Turner's sign	?	surgery	retroperitoneal hemorrhage
G	Griffith's sign	?			(needed)
G	Grotton's lesions	?			(needed)
G	Gunn's sign	?			(needed)
H	Hamman's sign	?
H	Hampton's hump	?
H	Hannington-Kiff sign	?			(needed)
H	Harrison's groove	?
H	Hatchcock's sign	?			(needed)
H	Heberden's node	William Heberden	rheumatology	osteoarthritis
H	Hegar's sign	Ernst Ludwig Alfred Hegar
H	Hess test	?			(needed)
H	Hill's sign	?
H	Hippocratic face	Hippocrates	palliative care	impending death
H	Hippocratic fingers	Hippocrates	pulmonary medicine	clubbing
H	Hirschberg test	Julius Hirschberg		test for strabismus
H	Hoffman's sign	?	neurology
H	Hollenhorst plaque	Robert Hollenhorst	opthalmology	hypertension, coronary artery disease, and/or diabetes
H	Holmes-Adie syndrome	?
H	Homan's sign	?		deep vein thrombosis
H	Hoover's sign	?			(needed)
H	Howship-Romberg sign	?			(needed)
H	Hutchinson freckle	?			(needed)
H	Hutchinson pupil	?			(needed)
H	Hutchinson's sign	?			(needed)
H	Hutchinson's teeth	?	pediatrics	congenital syphilis
J	Janeway lesion	Theodore Caldwell Janeway	cardiology	infective endocarditis
J	Jendrassik maneuver	Ernő Jendrassik	neurology	hyporeflexia
J	Joffroy sign	?
J	John Thomas sign	?			(needed)
J	Jolly test	?			(needed)
J	Jones criteria	?			(needed)
K	Kanavel's sign	?			(needed)
K	Kayser-Fleischer ring	?	neurology & gastroenterology	Wilson's disease
K	Kehr's sign	Hans Kehr		ruptured spleen
K	Kelly's sign	?			(needed)
K	Kerley lines	Peter Kerley	radiology	pulmonary edema
K	Kernig's sign	Woldemar Kernig	neurology	meningism, meningitis	synd/2200 at Who Named It
K	Koebner's phenomenon	Heinrich Koebner	dermatology	various conditions
K	Koeppe's nodules	Leonhard Koeppe	ophthalmology	uveitis
K	Koplik's spots	Henry Koplik	pediatrics	measles
K	Korotkoff sounds	Nikolai Korotkov	cardiology	sphygmomanometry
K	Kussmaul breathing or respiration	Adolph Kussmaul	endocrinology	metabolic acidosis
K	Kussmaul's sign	Adolph Kussmaul	cardiology	pericardial effusion
K	Kveim test	Morten Ansgar Kveim	pulmonary medicine	sarcoidosis
L	Lachman maneuver	John Lachman	orthopedic surgery	anterial cruciate ligament injury
L	Ladin's sign	?	obstetrics
L	Lancisi's sign	?
L	Lasègue's sign	Charles Lasègue	neurology
L	Leopold's maneuver	?	obstetrics		synd/3225 at Who Named It
L	Leser-Trelat sign	?
L	Levine's sign	?
L	Lhermitte's sign	Jean Lhermitte	neurology
L	Lisch nodule	?
L	Lisker's sign	?		deep venous thrombosis
L	Litten's sign	?	cardiology	infective endocarditis	eMedicine
L	Louvel's sign	?			(needed)
L	Lowenberg's sign	?		deep vein thrombosis
M	Macewen's sign	?
M	Magnan's sign	?			(needed)
M	Marcus Gunn pupil	?	neurology
M	Marie's sign	?			(needed)
M	Markle sign	?			(needed)
M	Mayne's sign	?			(needed)
M	McBurney's point	?	surgery	appendicitis
M	McConnell's sign	?	cardiology	pulmonary embolus	(needed)
M	McDonald's sign	?			(needed)
M	McMurray test	?
M	Means-Lerman scratch	?			(needed)
M	Mees' lines	R.A. Mees	toxicology	arsenic or heavy metal poisoning
M	Mentzer index	?	hematology	microcytic anemia
M	Miller-Fisher test	?			(needed)
M	Monash sign	?			(needed)
M	Möbius's sign	?			(needed)
M	Muehrckle's nails	?			(needed)
M	Mulder's sign	?			(needed)
M	Müller's maneuver	?
M	Müller's sign	?
M	Murphy's punch sign	?		perinephric abscess
M	Murphy's sign	?	surgery	cholecystitis
M	Myerson's sign	?	neurology	Parkinson's disease
N	Naegele's rule	Franz Karl Naegele	gynecology	gestation		method of estimating due date
N	Nardi test	?	gastroenterology
N	Nelson's syndrome	?	endocrinology	pituitary adenoma
N	Nikolsky's sign	?	dermatology
O	O'Brien's test	?			(needed)
O	O'Donoghue's triad	?		knee injury
O	Oliver's sign	?
O	Oppenheim's sign	?			(needed)
O	Ortolani's sign	Marino Ortolani	pediatrics & orthopedics	congenital hip dislocation	/ortolanis_test_for_congenital_hip_dislocation
O	Osborn wave	?			(needed)
O	Osler's node	William Osler
O	Osler's sign	William Osler
P	Palla's sign	?			(needed)
P	Pastia's sign	?			(needed) (Associated with Scarlatiniform rash and strep pyogenes)
P	Patrick's test	?		sacroiliitis
P	Pemberton's sign	?
P	Phalen's maneuver	?
P	Piskacek's sign	?			(needed)
P	Plummer's nail	?			(needed)
P	Pratt's sign	?			(needed)
P	Plummer-Vinson syndrome	?		iron deficiency anemia
Q	Queckenstedt's maneuver	?		spinal stenosis
Q	Quincke's sign	?
R	Reynolds' pentad	?		ascending cholangitis
R	Riesman's sign	?			(needed)
R	Rigler's sign	?
R	Rinne test	?
R	Romana's sign	?		Chagas' disease
R	Romberg test	?
R	Rosenbach's sign	?			(needed)
R	Roth's spots	?			(needed)
R	Rovsing's sign	?		appendicitis
R	Rumpel-Leede sign	?			(needed)
R	Russell's sign	?
S	Salus's sign	?			(needed)
S	Schafer's maneuver	?			(needed)
S	Schamroth's window test	?
S	Schilling test	?
S	Schirmer's test	?
S	Schober test	?	ankylosing spondylitis
S	Shone's complex	?			(needed)
S	Siegrist streaks	?
S	Sims-Huhner test	?			(needed)
S	Sister Mary Joseph sign (Sister Mary Joseph nodule)	Sister Mary Joseph Dempsey (born Julia Dempsey)	oncology	various malignancies
S	Spurling's test	?			(needed)
S	Stellwag's sign	?			(needed)
S	Still's murmur	?	cardiology
S	Stransky's sign	?			(needed)
S	Stroop test	?
S	Strümpell's sign	?			(needed)
S	Susac's syndrome	John Susac
T	Terry's nails	?	neurology	liver disease, others
T	Terry-Thomas's sign	Terry-Thomas			(needed)
T	Thompson's test	?			(needed)
T	Tinel's sign	?	neurology
T	Todd's paresis	Robert Bentley Todd	neurology	seizures
T	Tolosa-Hunt syndrome	?
T	Traube's sign	?
T	Trendelenburg gait	Friedrich Trendelenburg	neurology
T	Trendelenburg's sign	Friedrich Trendelenburg	neurology
T	Trousseau's sign	Armand Trousseau
U	Uhthoff's phenomenon	?	neurology	multiple sclerosis
U	Unterberger test	?	neurology
V	Virchow's triad	Rudolf Virchow	hematology	etiology of thrombosis
V	Virchow-Robin spaces	?
V	Volkmann's contracture	Richard von Volkmann
V	Von Braun-Fernwalds sign	?			(needed)
V	Von Graefe sign	?		goiter
W	Wada test	?	neurology
W	Waddell's signs	?
W	Waddell's triad	?	pediatric trauma	Pedestrian stuck by motor vehicle
W	Watson's water hammer pulse	?
W	Whipple's triad	Allen Whipple	endocrinology	hypoglycemia
W	Wickham's striae	?	dermatology	lichen planus
W	Widal test	Georges-Fernand Widal		salmonella
W	Winterbottom's sign	?		trypanosomiasis
W	Wolff-Parkinson-White triad	?			(needed)
W	Wright's maneuver	?			(needed)

See also

• Pathognomonic