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Cullen's sign is superficial edema and bruising in the subcutaneous fatty tissue around the umbilicus. It is named for gynecologist Thomas Stephen Cullen (1869–1953), [ 1 ] who first described the sign in ruptured ectopic pregnancy in 1916.
Cullen's sign: Thomas S. Cullen: surgery, obstetrics: intra-abdominal haemorrhage, ectopic pregnancy: ecchymosis around umbilicus predicts onset of acute pancreatitis Curschmann spirals: Heinrich Curschmann: pulmonology: asthma: spiral mucus plugs found in sputum Cushing's triad: Harvey Cushing: neurology: raised intracranial pressure
Grey Turner's sign refers to bruising of the flanks, the part of the body between the last rib and the top of the hip. The bruising appears as a blue discoloration, [ 1 ] and is a sign of retroperitoneal hemorrhage , or bleeding behind the peritoneum, which is a lining of the abdominal cavity.
The Cullen–Harrison Act, named for its sponsors, Senator Pat Harrison and Representative Thomas H. Cullen, enacted by the United States Congress on March 21, 1933, and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt the following day, legalized the sale in the United States of beer with an alcohol content of 3.2% (by weight) and wine of similarly low alcohol content, thought to be too low to be ...
Blue scrotum sign of Bryant; Blumberg's sign; Boas' point; Boas' sign; Body composition; Body fat percentage; Body mass index; Body roundness index; Borsari's sign; Bounding pulse; Braverman's sign; Breast mass; Brissaud's reflex; Broadbent inverted sign; Broadbent sign; Brodie–Trendelenburg percussion test; Brown's vasomotor index ...
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Cullen Center in Houston, Texas; Cullen, a genus of legumes native to the Old World; Cullen College of Engineering, an academic college at the University of Houston; Cullen number, a natural number of the form n · 2 n + 1 (written C n) Cullen skink, a thick Scottish soup; Cullen Wines, a winery in Western Australia
It was a response to a letter from Jamaican merchant Henry Cullen, in which Bolívar explained his thoughts about the social and political situation of the Spanish America at the time, the power of the Spanish Empire and the possible future of the new nations that would be created after its collapse.