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  2. Prehn's sign - Wikipedia

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    According to Prehn's sign, the physical lifting of the testicles relieves the pain of epididymitis but not pain caused by testicular torsion. [ 4 ] Negative Prehn's sign indicates no pain relief with lifting the affected testicle, which points towards testicular torsion which is a surgical emergency and must be relieved within 6 hours.

  3. Phren - Wikipedia

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    Phren, however, is not exclusively applied to humans. In Empedocles' system, Phren is a general psychological agent to which moral blame and praise can be extended, [4] that darts through the universe as effluences, steers and controls the cosmos in the process and is the measure of what is harmonious and what is fit to exist. [5]

  4. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    Sign Name Specialty Associated conditions External link (if no internal link) Descriptor Aaron's sign: Charles Dettie Aaron: surgery: appendicitis: epigastric pain with pressure on McBurney's point Abadie's sign: Jean Marie Charles Abadie: endocrinology: Graves' disease: levator palpebrae superioris spasm Abadie's symptom: Joseph Louis Irenée ...

  5. Positive and negative predictive values - Wikipedia

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    The positive predictive value (PPV), or precision, is defined as = + = where a "true positive" is the event that the test makes a positive prediction, and the subject has a positive result under the gold standard, and a "false positive" is the event that the test makes a positive prediction, and the subject has a negative result under the gold standard.

  6. Phrenology - Wikipedia

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  7. Bagua - Wikipedia

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    Bagua is a group of trigrams—composed of three lines, each either "broken" or "unbroken", which represent yin and yang, respectively. [1] Each line having two possible states allows for a total of 2 3 = 8 trigrams, whose early enumeration and characterization in China has had an effect on the history of Chinese philosophy and cosmology .

  8. Romberg's test - Wikipedia

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    Romberg's test, Romberg's sign, or the Romberg maneuver is a test used in an exam of neurological function for balance. The exam is based on the premise that a person requires at least two of the three following senses to maintain balance while standing: proprioception (the ability to know one's body position in space)

  9. Earth (wuxing) - Wikipedia

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    In Chinese philosophy, earth or soil (Chinese: 土; pinyin: tǔ) is one of the five concepts that conform the wuxing.Earth is the balance of both yin and yang in the Wuxing philosophy, as well as the changing or central point of physical matter or a subject. [1]