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  2. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    general medicine, surgery: varicose veins: superficial vein is percussed proximally; if impulse is felt over vein distally, valvular incompetence is present Budin's sign: Pierre-Constant Budin: surgery, obstetrics: suppurative mastitis: if breast milk flown into a sterile pad is mixed with pus (brown, yellow or bloody traces), mastitis may be ...

  3. List of medical symptoms - Wikipedia

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    List of medical symptoms. Medical symptoms refer to the manifestations or indications of a disease or condition, perceived and complained about by the patient. [1] [2] Patients observe these symptoms and seek medical advice from healthcare professionals.

  4. Signs and symptoms - Wikipedia

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    A medical sign is an objective observable indication of a disease, injury, or medical condition that may be detected during a physical examination. [7] These signs may be visible, such as a rash or bruise, or otherwise detectable such as by using a stethoscope or taking blood pressure. Medical signs, along with symptoms, help in forming a ...

  5. Category:Medical signs - Wikipedia

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    A. Aaron's sign; Abadie's sign of exophthalmic goiter; Abadie's sign of tabes dorsalis; Abdominal aura; Abdominal mass; Abdominal obesity; Abdominal reflex

  6. Complication (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Prevention methods include increased use of electronic prescription, pre-packaging unit dosing, and ensuring medical literacy among patients. Surgical: Surgery-related medical errors can be anesthesia-related, but most often include wrong-site and wrong-patient procedural errors. Preventive measures include following and double-checking ...

  7. Infection prevention and control - Wikipedia

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    When an unusual cluster of illness is noted, infection control teams undertake an investigation to determine whether there is a true disease outbreak, a pseudo-outbreak (a result of contamination within the diagnostic testing process), or just random fluctuation in the frequency of illness. If a true outbreak is discovered, infection control ...

  8. Surgical shock - Wikipedia

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    Surgical shock is a physiologic state of shock which can be related to complications of surgery or the surgery itself. [1] Shock is defined as insufficient perfusion or blood flow to organs and body tissue that causes organ and tissue dysfunction, [2] [1] and can be divided into different types depending on the cause and symptoms. A common type ...

  9. Indication (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, an indication is a valid reason to use a certain test, medication, procedure, or surgery. [1] There can be multiple indications to use a procedure or medication. [2] An indication can commonly be confused with the term diagnosis.

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