Signs and symptoms

Bruising around both eyes, like a raccoon's mask.

To spread outward from one place to another, as pain can spread from where it starts.

An area of skin that has changed in color or texture, often red, bumpy, scaly or itchy.

Pain that is worse when a hand pressing into the abdomen is quickly let go than when it is pressed in.

Turned red, used for skin or tissue that has become redder than normal.

Pain felt in a part of the body away from where the problem actually is.

An automatic body response to something that stimulates it, which happens without thought, such as the knee jerk.

A flowing backward: blood leaking back through a heart valve, or stomach contents coming back up into the mouth.

Breathing that is too slow or too shallow to move enough air in and out of the lungs.

Difficulty breathing severe enough that a person has to work hard to move air in and out.

The keeping in of something the body would normally let go, such as urine, fluid or stool.

Separation of the light-sensing layer of the retina from the pigment layer beneath it, which threatens sight in that eye.

A cancer of the retina that occurs in young children.

A drawing back or pulling in of tissue; in breathing, the skin sinking in between, below or above the ribs with each breath.

Ejaculation in which the semen goes backward into the bladder instead of out through the penis.

Five findings together: fever, pain in the upper right abdomen, jaundice, low blood pressure and confusion.

A runny nose: thin fluid draining from the nose.

Low-pitched, rumbling or snoring lung sounds heard with a stethoscope.

Stiffness: a muscle, limb or the wall of the belly that resists being moved or pressed.

Able to be woken up.

Pain felt in the right lower abdomen when the examiner presses on the left lower abdomen.