Named signs
Signs and patterns named after the people who described them: Kussmaul, Homans, Chvostek and more.
coffee-ground emesis
KAW-fee grownd EM-eh-sis · sustantivo
Vomit that is dark brown and grainy, like used coffee grounds.
Entrada completaSET-ing sun sineEyes turned downward so that a strip of white shows above the colored part of the eye, like a sun setting below the horizon.
Snellen chartEpónimoSNEL-en chartAn eye chart with rows of letters that get smaller, used to test how clearly a person sees at a distance.
Somogyi effectEpónimosoe-MOE-jee ih-FEKTA high morning blood glucose that follows a low blood glucose during the night.
steeple signSTEE-pul sineA tapered narrowing of the upper airway below the vocal cords that looks like a church steeple on a front-view neck x-ray.
Stevens-Johnson syndromeEpónimoSTEE-vunz JON-sun SIN-drohmA rare, severe reaction, most often to a drug, in which the skin and the moist linings of the body blister and peel away.
Swan-Ganz catheterEpónimoSWON GANZ KATH-uh-terA balloon-tipped catheter passed through a large vein and the right heart into the pulmonary artery, to measure pressures inside the heart and lungs.
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