List of eponymous medical signs
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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.
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Listed alphabetically
A
- Aaron sign – Charles Dettie Aaron
- Abadie's sign – Jean Marie Charles Abadie
- Abadie's symptom – Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie
- Abderhalden reaction – Emil Abderhalden
- Abelin reaction – Isaak Abelin
- Abel's test – Dietrich Abels
- Addis count – Thomas Addis
- Adie pupil – William John Adie
- Adson's sign – Alfred Adson
- Alexander's law
- Allen's test – Edgar Van Nuys Allen
- Apley grind test – Alan Graham Apley
- Argyll Robertson pupils – Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson
- Arneth count – Josef Arneth
- Ascheim-Zondek test – Selmar Ascheim, Bernhard Zondek
- Aschoff body – Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff
- Ashby techniques – Winifred Ashby
- Auberger's blood group – Auberger (patient)
- Auenbrugger's sign – Josef Leopold Auenbrugger
- Auer rods – John Auer
- Auspitz's sign – Heinrich Auspitz
- Austin Flint murmur – Austin Flint
- Australian antigen – Aboriginal patient
B
- Babinski sign – Joseph Babinski
- Baghdad boil – Baghdad
- Bainbridge reflex – Francis Arthur Bainbridge
- Bairnsdale ulcer – Bairnsdale
- Balbiani rings – Edouard-Gérard Balbiani
- Ballance's sign – Charles Alfred Ballance
- Bárány test – Robert Bárány
- Barlow's maneuver – Thomas Barlow (medicine)
- Bart hemoglobin – Barts Hospital
- Bastian-Bruns sign – Henry Charlton Bastian, Ludwig Bruns
- Battle's sign – William Henry Battle
- Beau's lines – Joseph Honoré Simon Beau
- Beck's triad – Claude Schaeffer Beck
- Becker's sign – Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker
- Beevor's sign – Charles Edward Beevor
- Bekhterev-Mendel reflex – Vladimir Bekhterev, Kurt Mendel
- Bence Jones protein – Henry Bence Jones
- Benedict solution – Stanley Rossiter Benedict
- Berger rhythm – Hans Berger
- Bezold-Jarisch reflex – Albert von Bezold, Adolf Jarisch
- Bielschowsky's tilt – Alfred Bielschowsky
- Bing's sign – Paul Robert Bing
- Biot's breathing – C. Biot
- Bitot's spots – Pierre Bitot
- Bjerrum scotoma – Jannik Peterson Bjerrum
- Blumberg sign – Jacob Moritz Blumberg
- Boas's sign – Ismar Isidor Boas
- Bodansky unit – Meyer Bodansky
- Bombay blood group – Bombay
- Boston sign – L.N. Boston
- Bouchard's nodes – Charles-Joseph Bouchard
- Bracht-Wachter bodies – Erich Bracht, H. Wächter
- Branham's sign – Henry Branham
- Braxton Hicks contraction – John Braxton Hicks
- Brewer infarcts – George Emerson Brewer
- Broadbent inverted sign – William Broadbent
- Broadbent law – William Broadbent
- Broadbent sign – William Broadbent
- Broca aphasia – Paul Pierre Broca
- Brodie-Trendelenburg test – Benjamin Collins Brodie, Friedrich Trendelenburg
- Brudzinski sign – Jósef Brudziński
- Bruit de Roger – Henri-Louis Roger
- Bruns ataxia – Ludwig Bruns
- Brushfield spots – Thomas Brushfield
- Burton line – Henry Burton
C
- Cabot rings – Richard Cabot
- Caput Medusae – Medusa
- Carey Coombs murmur – Carey Coombs
- Carnett's test – John Carnett
- Carvallo sign – José Carvallo
- Casal collar – Gaspar Casal
- Casoni test – Tommaso Casoni
- Celsus signs of inflammation – Aurelius Cornelius Celsus
- Chaddock reflex – Charles Gilbert Chaddock
- Chadwick sign – James Read Chadwick
- Charcot's triad – Jean-Martin Charcot
- Charcot-Leyden crystals – Jean-Martin Charcot, Ernst Viktor von Leyden
- Cheyne-Stokes respiration – John Cheyne, William Stokes
- Churchill-Cope reflex – Edward Delos Churchill, Oliver Cope
- Chvostek's sign – František Chvostek
- Clark sign – Alonzo Clark
- Claybrook sign – Edwin Claybrook
- Clutton's joints – Henry Hugh Clutton
- Codman's triangle – Ernest Armory Codman
- Comby sign – Jules Comby
- Coombs test – Robin Coombs
- Coons fluorescent antibody method – Albert Coons
- Corrigan pulse – Dominic John Corrigan
- Councilman bodies – William Councilman
- Courvoisier's law – Ludwig Georg Courvoisier
- Crighton-Browne sign – James Crighton-Browne
- Crowe sign – Samuel Crowe
- Cruveihiler-Baumgarten bruit – Léon Cruveilhier, Paul Clemens von Baumgarten
- Cullen's sign – Thomas Cullen
- Curschmann spirals – Hans Curschmann
- Cushing's triad – Harvey Cushing
D
- Dahl's sign
- Darymple sign
- Dance's sign
- Darier's sign
- Dawson's fingers
- De Musset's sign
- Dennie's lines
- Destot's sign
- Dix-Hallpike test
- Döhle bodies
- Doi's sign
- Dunphy sign
- Duroziez's sign
E
F
- Finkelstein's Test
- Forschimer spots
- Fothergill's sign
- Fox's sign
- Frank's sign
- Friedreich's sign
- Froment's sign
G
- Gallavardin dissociation
- Gandy-Gamma nodules
- Gerhard's sign
- Goetz sign
- Gond's maneuver
- Goodell's sign
- Goodsall's rule
- Gordon's maneuver
- Gottron's papules
- Gower's maneuver
- Gramham Steell murmur
- Grey Turner's sign
- Griffith's sign
- Grotton's lesions
- Gunn's sign
H
- Hamman's sign
- Hampton's hump
- Hannington-Kiff sign
- Harrison's groove
- Hatchcock's sign
- Heberden's nodes
- Hegar's sign
- Hess test
- Hill's sign
- Hippocratic fingers
- Hoffman's sign
- Hollenhorst plaques
- Holmes-Adie syndrome
- Homan's sign
- Hoover’s sign
- Howship-Romberg sign
- Hutchinson freckle
- Hutchinson pupil
- Hutchinson's sign
- Hutchinson's teeth
J
K
- Kanavel's sign
- Kayser-Fleischer ring
- Kehr's sign
- Kelly's sign
- Kerley A lines
- Kerley B lines
- Kerley C lines
- Kernig sign
- Koebner's phenomenon
- Koeppe's nodules
- Koplik's spots
- Korotkoff sounds
- Kussmaul breathing a.k.a. Kussmaul's respiration
- Kussmaul's sign
- Kveim-Siltzbach test
L
- Lachman maneuver
- Ladin's sign
- Lancisi's sign
- Lasegue's sign
- Leopold's maneuver
- Leser-Trelat sign
- Levine's sign
- Lhermitte's sign - Jean Lhermitte
- Lisch nodules
- Lisker's sign
- Litten's sign
- Louvel's sign
- Lowenberg's sign
M
- Macewen's sign
- Marcus Gunn pupil
- Marie's sign
- Markle sign
- Mayne's sign
- McBurney's sign
- McConnell's sign
- McDonald's sign
- McMurray test
- Means-Lerman scratch
- Mees's lines
- Mentzer index
- Miller-Fisher test
- Möbius's sign
- Muehrckle's nails
- Mulder's sign
- Müller's maneuver
- Müller's sign
- Murphy's punch sign
- Murphy's sign
- Myerson's sign
N
O
P
- Palla's sign
- Pastia's sign
- Patrick sign
- Pemberton's sign
- Phalen's maneuver
- Piskacek's sign
- Plummer's nail
- Pratt's sign
Q
R
- Reynold's pentad
- Riesman's sign
- Riggler's sign
- Rinne test
- Romana's sign
- Romberg test
- Rosenbach's sign
- Roth’s spots
- Rovsing's sign
- Rumpel-Leede sign
- Rusell's sign
S
- Salus's sign
- Schafer's maneuver
- Schamroth's window test
- Schilling test
- Schirmer's test
- Schober test
- Siegrist streaks
- Sims-Huhner test
- Sister Mary Joseph sign
- Spurling's test
- Stellwag's sign
- Still's murmur
- Stransky's sign
- Stroop test
- Strümpell's sign
- Susac syndrome
T
- Terry's nails
- Thompson's test
- Tinel's sign
- Traube's sign
- Trendelenburg's gait
- Trendelenburg's sign
- Trousseau's sign
U
V
- Virchow's triad
- Virchow-Robin spaces
- Volkmann's contracture
- Von Braun-Fernwalds sign
- Von Graefe sign