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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. 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 ...

  4. Kehr's sign - Wikipedia

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    Kehr's sign is the occurrence of acute pain in the tip of the shoulder due to the presence of blood or other irritants in the peritoneal cavity when a person is lying down and the legs are elevated. Kehr's sign in the left shoulder is considered a classic symptom of a ruptured spleen .

  5. National Institute of Health Research and Development (Indonesia)

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    Before Balitbangkes existed, the agency was preceded by four Health Laboratories under the Indonesian Department of Health formed in 1950-1960s, three were soon founded after the end of Indonesian National Revolution: Institute for People's Food in Bogor (researched human nutrition), Central Institute for Investigation and Eradication of Venereal Diseases in Surabaya (researched transmission ...

  6. 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 ]

  7. Phrenology - Wikipedia

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  8. Psoas sign - Wikipedia

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    The psoas sign, also known as Cope's sign (or Cope's psoas test [1]) or Obraztsova's sign, [2] is a medical sign that indicates irritation to the iliopsoas group of hip flexors in the abdomen, and consequently indicates that the inflamed appendix is retrocaecal in orientation (as the iliopsoas muscle is retroperitoneal).

  9. Phrenitis - Wikipedia

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    A horse with phrenitis, 1678. Lld manuscript from the Deutsche Fotothek. The term phrenitis was employed in ancient Greece by Hippocrates and his followers. It refers to acute inflammation of mind and body, not in a theoretical but in a descriptive sense.