Disgusting Signs With Eponyms Trivia Quiz

Answer: Dance's sign

Dance's sign is considered a pathognomonic sign of intussusception (telescoping of one portion of intestine into another). Intussusception usually occurs for unknown reasons in infants younger than one year. The dance's sign cannot be palpated if the infant is crying because the abdominal muscles are tense. Mortality rate increases rapidly if not treated immediately within 24 hours after intussusception occurs.

Intussusception is characterized by piercing cry, severe abdominal pain, vomiting of bile-stained fluid, bloody mucus in stool and currant-jelly stool.

Answer: Heberden's node

Heberden's nodes are often seen in people with osteoarthritis (OA), usually at the distal interphalangeal joints of the fingers. These result from the development of calcific spurs of the joint cartilage. Genes play an important role in the disease formation. OA mainly affects weight-bearing joints. As the disease advances, pain occurs with slight movement or even at rest.

Answer: Gower's sign

Gowers' sign is one classic sign of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a genetic condition that weakens the muscles which are near the trunk of the body, the hips and the shoulders. Sufferers have difficulty getting up from a sitting or lying position. The condition is lifelong and usually affects males. The weakness shows up in early childhood.

Answer: Chvostek's sign

Chvostek's sign is a result of hyperexcitability of the nerves. It usually indicates low serum calcium (hypocalcemia) or low serum magnesium (hypomagnesemia). Hypothyroidism can cause hypocalcemia. Alcoholism can cause hypomagnesemia.

Answer: Bitot's spots

Bitot's s spots are early manifestations of vitamin A deficiency. Prolonged deficiency of vitamin A leads to xerophthalmia (dryness of the eye surface due to insufficient tear production).

Answer: Rumpel-Leede's sign

These dots indicate capillary fragility and bleeding tendency if more than 20 petechiae per square inch appeared but are not sufficient to diagnose dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF, a flu-like viral illness caused by the bite of an infected mosquito). Dengue is most common in tropical areas of the world.These petechiae are blood leakage from capillaries into the skin.

This finding is an indication of a serious underlying problem prompting anyone who has this to consult a physician immediately.

Answer: Ortolani's sign

Ortolani's sign indicates dislocated hip in infants. Usually, female infants are affected. Around 80-95% of the affected infants have normal hip development if diagnosed and treated before six months of age.

Answer: Lhermitte's sign

Lhermitte's sign occurred in around 33% of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients when the neck is bent forward. It is seldom painful but usually an indication of increased disease activity. Multiple sclerosis, is a chronic, unpredictable, often debilitating central nervous system disorder that interrupts the flow of information between the brain and body. The disease is more likely to develop in women. Lhermitte's sign is also seen in other cervical cord disorders.

Answer: Charcot's

Bile ducts carry bile from the liver to the gallbladder and intestine. Cholangitis occurs when an obstructed bile duct becomes infected with bacteria. Escherichia coli is the bacterium most commonly associated with cholangitis.

Answer: Russell's sign

Russell's sign is a dermatological finding in people with bulimia as a result of manual attempts to induce vomiting. Other physical manifestations of bulimia are puffy "chipmunk" cheeks caused by repeated vomiting, teeth discoloration from exposure to stomach acid when vomiting and weight fluctuations.



Those signs were named after the following:

Jean Baptiste Hippolyte Dance, a French pathologist
William Heberden's, an English physician
William Richard Gower, a British neurologist
Frantisek Chvostek, a Czech-Austrian military physician
Pierre Bitot, a French physician
Theodore Rumpel, a German surgeon
Carl Stockbridge Leede, an American physician
Marino Ortolani, an Italian pediatrician
Jean Lhermitte, a French neurologist and neuropsychiatrist
Jean Martin Charcot, a French neurologist
Gerald Russell, a British psychiatrist




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