Rashes, Rashes, Rashes
Koplik's spots (small white spots on the inside of the cheeks of the mouth)
Measles
stiffness of hamstrings causing inability to straighten the leg when the hip is flexed to 90 degrees in a patient with meningitis
Kernig's sign
the twitching of the facial muscles in response to tapping over the area of the facial nerve; seen patients with tetany; hypocalcemia
Chvostek's sign
Ecchymosis of the umbilicus
Cullen's sign in Pancreatitis
Acronym to remember each nerve
Ooh, ooh, ooh to touch and feel very good velvet. Such heaven!
Butterfly rash
Systemic Lupus Erythema
forced flexion of the neck elicits a reflex flexion of the hips;occurs in patients with meningitis
Brudzinski's sign
when a carpopedal spasm of the hand and wrist occurs after an individual wears a blood pressure cuff inflated over their systolic blood pressure for 2 to 3 minutes (hand looks like a bird); tetany -occurs in a person with hypocalcemia
Troussseau's sign
Bruising of the flank area
Grey Turner's Sign
Digestion and heart rate nerve
Cranial nerve X (ten) - vagus nerve
Rose spots on the abdomen
Typhoid
drooping of the eyelid seen with myasthenia gravis
ptosis
Exophthalmos (bulging of the eye out of the orbit).
Grave’s Disease (Hyperthyroidism)—
Pain when pressure applied to this point in the RLQ of the abd right over this point with appendicitis
McBurney's point
Sense of hearing and balance
Cranial nerve VIII (8) Auditory/Vestibular nerve
erythematous maculopapular... that develop three to six days from fever onset in a person with Dengue
Herman's sign
nystagmus, intention tremor, and dysarthria seen in patients with multiple sclerosis
Charcot’s Triad
moon face appearance and buffalo hump.
Cushing’s syndrome
Palpation of the LLQ elicits pain in the RLQ with appendicitis
Rovsing's sign
Sensations of your face and jaw movements
Cranial nerve V (5) Trigeminal nerve
Bronzelike skin pigmentation
Addison's disease
ascending muscles weakness.
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
muscle twitches, paralysis, abnormal heart rhythms
Hypokalemia
elicited by having the patient lie on his or her left side while the right thigh is flexed backward.
Psoas Sign
Ability to move your tongue
Cranial nerve XII (12) Hypoglossal nerve