PATHOGNOMONIC SIGN is widely used in the field of medicine for it gives the doctors a hint of the disease condition

the client is experiencing. It is also termed as Hallmark Signs which means it is the outstanding characteristic of a pathologic condition. Here is the list of common diseases with their corresponding pathognomonic signs. * ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM- Pulsating abdominal mass * ACUTE MYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA- Auer Rods * ADDISONS DISEASE- Bronze Skin Pigmentation * ANGINA PECTORIS- Levines Sign * APPENDICITIS- Blumbergs Sign * ASBESTOSIS- Fer * ASTHMA- Wheezing Inspiration * BASILAR FRACTURE- Racoons Eye * BUERGERS DISEASE- Intermittent Claudication * BULIMIA NERVOSA- Chipmunk face, Russells Sign * CATARACT- Cloudy Vision * CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING- Cherry Red Face * CARDIAC TAMPONADE- Muffled Heart Sound * CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME- Tinnels Sign * CEREBRAL PALSY- Scissor gait * CHOLECYSTITIS- Murphys Sign * CHOLERA- Rice-watery stool * COARCTATION OF THE AORTA- Notching of Ribs * CONGENITAL HIP DYSPLASIA- Ortholanis Click * CRI-DU-CHAT SYNDROME- Cat Cry * CUSHINGS DISEASE- Moonface, Trunkal Obesity, Buffalo Hump * CVA- Homonymous Hemianopsia * DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS- Homans Sign * DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS Kussmauls Respiration * DIPHTHERIA- Pseudomembrane * DOWN SYNDROME- Single Crease on the palm * DUCHENNES MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY- Gowers Sign * EMPHYSEMA- Barrel Chest * ENDOMETRIOSIS- Chocolate cyst * FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME- Facial abnormalities * FIFTHS DISEASE- Redness of the cheeks * FILARIASIS- Lymphangitis * GERD- Baretts Esophagus * GERMAN MEASLES- Forscheimers Spot * GLAUCOMA- Halos around light * GOUTY ARTHRITIS- Tophi * GRAVES DISEASE- Exopthalmos

* GUILLAN BARRE SYNDROME- ascending paralysis * HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY- Asterixis * HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE- Ribbon-like Stool * HERNIATED NUCLEOUS PULPOSUS- Lasegues Sign * HODGKINS LYMPHOMA- Reed-sternberg cell * HYDROCEPHALUS- Bossings Sign * HYPERTHYROIDISM- Exopthalmos * HYPOCALCEMIA- Chvostek & Trousseau Sign * INTUSSUSCEPTION- Currant-jelly stool * KAWASAKI DISEASE- Strawberry Tongue * LEPROSY- Lion Facies * LIVER CIRRHOSIS- Spider Angioma, Caput Medusae * MEASLES- Kopliks Spot * MENINGITIS- Nuchal Rigidity, Brudzinski & Kernigs Sign * MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS- Nystagmus * MYASTHENIA GRAVIS- Ptosis * OSTEOARTHRITIS- Heberdens node, Buckards Node * OSTEOPOROSIS- Dowagers hump * PARKINSONS DISEASE- Pill-rolling hand tremors * PANCREATITIS- Cullens Sign * PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS- machine-like murmur * PANCREATITIS- Cullens Sign * PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS- machine-like murmur * PERICARDITIS- Pericardial Friction Rub * PERNICIOUS ANEMIA- Red Beefy Tongue * PERTUSSIS- Barking cough * PHEMPHINGUS- Nikolsky Sign * PNEUMOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA- Rusty Sputum * POTTS DISEASE- Gibbus Formation * PULMONARY EDEMA- Pink Frothy Sputum * PYLORIC STENOSIS- Olive-shaped mass, Projectile Vomiting * RABIES- Hydrophobia * RETINAL DETACHMENT- Veil-like vision * RETINOBLASTOMA- Cats Eye * RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS- Swan Neck Deformity * SCARLET FEVER- Pastia Lines, Raspberry Tongue * SCOLIOSIS- Uneven shoulders * SYPHILIS- Chancre * SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS- Butterfly Rash * TETANUS- Trismus, Lock Jaw * TETRALOGY OF FALLOT- Boot-shaped Heart * TUBERCULOSIS- Night sweats, Low Grade Afternoon Fever

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