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91stop sign — /ˈstɒp saɪn/ (say stop suyn) noun a sign at a road junction, indicating that the driver must stop completely and give way to all traffic on the left and right …
92Turkey sign — Anything left on the ground that indicates that a turkey is in the area. Sign includes droppings, feathers, scratches, dusting areas, and tracks …
93Kehr's sign — pain in the left shoulder caused by irritation of the undersurface of the diaphragm by blood leaking from a ruptured spleen. The pain impulses are referred along the phrenic nerve. H. Kehr (1862 1913), German surgeon …
94Troisier's sign — enlargement of the lymph node at the base of the neck on the left side (Troisier s node), which indicates metastatic spread from an abdominal malignant growth, usually a carcinoma of the stomach. C. E. Troisier (1844 1919), French physician …
95Ballance sign — resonance of right flank when the patient lies on the left side; said to be present in splenic rupture …
96Broadbent sign — a retraction seen on the left side of the back, near the eleventh and twelfth ribs, related to pericardial adhesion …
97Broadbent inverted sign — pulsations synchronizing with ventricular systole on the posterior lateral wall of the chest in gross dilatation of the left atrium …
98Grocco sign — see under 1. triangle. 2. extension of the liver dullness to the left of the midspinal line, indicating enlargement of the organ …
99Kehr sign — severe pain in the left shoulder in some cases of rupture of the spleen …
100Rovsing sign — pressure over the point on the left side corresponding to the McBurney point on the right will elicit the typical pain at the McBurney point in appendicitis …
