BUZZ WORDS
DIAGNOSTIC KEY WORDS
SPECIAL TESTS
CLASSIC PHYSICAL EXAMS
CLASSIC VIGNETTE
COMMON MNEMONICS
100

STRAWBERRY CERVIX

TRICHOMONIASIS

100

IRREGULARLY IRREGULAR RHYTHM

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

100

TINEL SIGN

CARPAL TUNNEL
100

(+) KERNIG SIGN 

MENINGITIS

100

POLYDIPSIA, POLYURIA, POLYPHAGIA

DIABETES

100

SIGECAPS

MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER

200

OLIVE MASS

PYLORIC STENOSIS

200

ANTI-TISSUE TRANSGLUTAMINASE

CELIAC DISEASE

200

LACHMAN TEST

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT

200

PAINLESS CHANCRE

PRIMARY SYPHILIS
200

COUGH, CORYZA, CONJUNCTIVITIS

MEASLES

200

CAN'T SEE, CAN'T PEE, CAN'T CLIMB A TREE

REACTIVE ARTHRITIS

300
BIRD'S BEAK

ACHALASIA

300

REED STERNBERG CELLS

HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA

300

HOMAN SIGN

DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS

300

CONTINUOUS MACHINERY-LIKE MURMUR

PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS

300

FORCEFUL RETCHING + HEMATEMESIS

MALLORY WEISS TEAR

300

WET, WACKY, WOBBLY

NORMAL PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS

400

MASKED FACIES

PARKINSON DISEASE

400

OSLER NODES

BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS

400

THOMPSON TEST

ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE

400

PAINLESS JAUNDICE

PANCREATIC CANCER

400

HEADACHE, HTN, SWEATING EPISODES

PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA

400

STONES, BONES, GROANS, PSYCHIC OVERTONES, STUCK ON THE THRONE

HYPERCALCEMIA

500

CHOCOLATE CYSTS

ENDOMETRIOSIS

500
INDIA INK STAIN

CRYPTOCOCCUS MENINGITIS

500
ICE PACK TEST

MYASTHENIA GRAVIS

500

ASTERIXIS + ASCITES

HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY 

500

DIARRHEA, DEMENTIA, DERMATITIS 

NIACIN (B3) DEFICIENCY 

500

RED AS A BEET, DRY AS A BONE, BLIND AS A BAT, MAD AS A HATTER, HOT AS A HARE, FULL AS A FLASK 

ANTICHOLINERGIC OVERDOSE