COMMON SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS



COMMON SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASE

01. PTB – low-grade afternoon fever.

02. PNEUMONIA – rusty sputum.

03. ASTHMA – wheezing on expiration.

04. EMPHYSEMA – barrel chest.

05. KAWASAKI SYNDROME – strawberry tongue.

06. PERNICIOUS ANEMIA – red beefy tongue.

07. DOWN SYNDROME – protruding tongue.

08. CHOLERA – rice watery stool.

09. MALARIA – stepladder like fever with chills.

10. TYPHOID – rose spots in the abdomen.

11. DIPTHERIA – pseudo membrane formation

12. MEASLES – koplik’s spots.

13. SLE – butterfly rashes.

14. LIVER CIRRHOSIS – spider-like varices.

15. LEPROSY – lioning face.

16. BULIMIA – chipmunk face.

17. APPENDICITIS – rebound tenderness.

18. DENGUE – petechiae or (+) Herman’s sign.

19. MENINGITIS – Kernig’s sign (leg flex then leg pain on extension), Brudzinski sign (neck flex = lower leg flex).

20. TETANYhypocalcemia (+) Trousseau’s sign/carpopedal spasm; Chvostek sign (facial spasm).

21. TETANUS – risus sardonicus.

22. PANCREATITIS – Cullen’s sign (ecchymosis of umbilicus); (+) Grey turners spots.

23. PYLORIC STENOSIS – olive-like mass.

24. PDA – machine-like murmur.

25. ADDISON’S DISEASE – bronze-like skin pigmentation.

26. CUSHING’S SYNDROME – moon face appearance and buffalo hump.

27. HYPERTHYROIDISM/GRAVE’S DISEASE – exophthalmos.

28. INTUSSUSCEPTION – sausage-shaped mass, Dance Sign (empty portion of RLQ)

29. MS – Charcot’s Triad (IAN)

30. MG – descending muscle weakness

31. Guillain Barre Syndrome – ascending muscle weakness

32. DVTHoman’s Sign

33. CHICKEN POX – Vesicular Rash (central to distal) dew drop on a rose petal

34. ANGINA – Crushing stubbing pain relieved by NTG

35. MI – Crushing stubbing pain which radiates to left shoulder, neck, and arms, unrelieved by NTG

36. LTBinspiratory stridor

37. TEF – 4Cs’ Coughing, Choking, Cyanosis, Continous Drooling

38. EPIGLOTITIS – 3Ds’ Drooling, Dysphonia, Dysphagia

39. HODGEKIN’S DSE/LYMPHOMA – painless, progressive enlargement of spleen & lymph tissues, Reedstenberg Cells

40. INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS – Hallmark: sore throat, cervical lymph adenopathy, fever

41. PARKINSON’S – Pill-rolling tremors

42. FIBRIN HYALIN – Expiratory Grunt

43. CYSTIC FIBROSIS – Salty skin

44. DMpolyuria, polydypsia, polyphagia

45. DKAKussmauls breathing (Deep Rapid RR)

46. BLADDER CA – painless hematuria

47. BPH – reduced size & force of urine

48. PEMPHIGUS VULGARISNikolsky’s sign (separation of the epidermis caused by rubbing of the skin)

49. RETINAL DETACHMENT – Visual Floaters, flashes of light, curtain vision

50. GLAUCOMA – Painfull vision loss, tunnel/gun barrel/halo vision (Peripheral Vision Loss)

51. CATARACT – Painless vision loss, Opacity of the lens, blurring of vision

52. RETINO BLASTOMA – Cat’s eye reflex (grayish discoloration of pupils)

53. ACROMEGALY – Coarse facial feature

54. DUCHENNE’S MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY – Gowers’ sign (use of hands to push one’s self from the floor)

55. GERDBarrett's esophagus (erosion of the lower portion of the esophageal mucosa)

56. HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY – Flapping tremors

57. HYDROCEPHALUS – Bossing sign (prominent forehead)

58. INCREASE ICPHYPERtension BRADYpnea BRADYcardia (Cushing’s Triad)

59. SHOCK – HYPOtension TACHYpnea TACHYcardia

60. MENIERE’S DSE – Vertigo, Tinnitus

61. CYSTITIS – burning on urination

62. HYPOCALCEMIAChvostek & Trosseaus sign

63. ULCERATIVE COLITIS – recurrent bloody diarrhea

64. LYME’S DSE – Bull’s eye rash

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