LIST OF EPONYMOUS MEDICAL SIGNS

'Eponymous medical signs' are medical signs that are named after a person or persons, usually the physicians who first described them, but occasionally named after a famous patient with the signs.

'Letter'	'Sign'	'Name'	'Field'	'Conditions'	'External link (if no internal link)'
A	Aaron sign	Charles Dettie Aaron	gastroenterology	appendicitis
A	Abadie's sign	Jean Marie Charles Abadie
A	Abadie's symptom	Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie
A	Abderhalden reaction	Emil Abderhalden	obstetrics
A	Abelin reaction	Isaak Abelin
A	Abel's test	Dietrich Abels
A	Addis count	Thomas Addis			(needed)
A	Adie pupil	William John Adie	neurology
A	Adson's sign	Alfred Adson
A	Alexander's law	?
A	Allen's test	Edgar Van Nuys Allen
A	Apley grind test	Alan Graham Apley
A	Argyll Robertson pupils	Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson	neurology
A	Arneth count	Josef Arneth
A	Ascheim-Zondek test	Selmar Ascheim, Bernhard Zondek
A	Aschoff body	Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff
A	Ashby techniques	Winifred Ashby			(needed)
A	Auberger's blood group	Auberger (patient)			(needed)
A	Auenbrugger's sign	Josef Leopold Auenbrugger
A	Auer rods	John Auer
A	Auspitz's sign	Heinrich Auspitz
A	Austin Flint murmur	Austin Flint	cardiology
A	Australian antigen	Aboriginal patient			(needed)
B	Babinski sign	Joseph Babinski	neurology
B	Baghdad boil	Baghdad
B	Bainbridge reflex	Francis Arthur Bainbridge
B	Bairnsdale ulcer	Bairnsdale
B	Balbiani rings	Edouard-Gérard Balbiani			(needed)
B	Ballance's sign	Charles Alfred Ballance			(needed)
B	Bárány test	Robert Bárány			(needed)
B	Barlow's maneuver	Thomas Barlow (medicine)			(needed)
B	Bart hemoglobin	Barts Hospital			(needed)
B	Bastian-Bruns sign	Henry Charlton Bastian, Ludwig Bruns			(needed)
B	Battle's sign	William Henry Battle
B	Beau's lines	Joseph Honoré Simon Beau
B	Beck's triad	Claude Schaeffer Beck
B	Becker's sign	Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker			(needed)
B	Beevor's sign	Charles Edward Beevor
B	Bekhterev-Mendel reflex	Vladimir Bekhterev, Kurt Mendel			(needed)
B	Bence Jones protein	Henry Bence Jones
B	Benedict solution	Stanley Rossiter Benedict
B	Berger rhythm	Hans Berger			(needed)
B	Bezold-Jarisch reflex	Albert von Bezold, Adolf Jarisch			(needed)
B	Bielschowsky's tilt	Alfred Bielschowsky			(needed)
B	Bing's sign	Paul Robert Bing			(needed)
B	Biot's respiration	C. Biot	pulmonology
B	Bitot's spots	Pierre Bitot
B	Bjerrum scotoma	Jannik Peterson Bjerrum			(needed)
B	Blumberg sign	Jacob Moritz Blumberg
B	Boas' point	Ismar Isidor Boas			(needed)
B	Boas' sign I	Ismar Isidor Boas
B	Boas' sign II	Ismar Isidor Boas			(needed)
B	Bodansky unit	Meyer Bodansky			(needed)
B	Bombay blood group	Bombay			(needed)
B	Boston's sign	L.N. Boston
B	Bouchard's nodes	Charles-Joseph Bouchard
B	Bracht-Wachter bodies	Erich Franz Eugen Bracht, H. Wächter
B	Branham's sign	Henry Branham			(needed)
B	Braxton Hicks contraction	John Braxton Hicks
B	Brewer infarcts	George Emerson Brewer			(needed)
B	Broadbent inverted sign	William Broadbent			(needed)
B	Brissaud's reflex	Édouard Brissaud			(needed)
B	Broadbent law	William Broadbent			(needed)
B	Broadbent sign	William Broadbent			(needed)
B	Broca aphasia	Paul Broca
B	Brodie-Trendelenburg test	Benjamin Collins Brodie, Friedrich Trendelenburg
B	Brudzinski sign	Józef Brudziński
B	Bruit de Roger	Henri-Louis Roger			(needed)
B	Bruns ataxia	Ludwig Bruns			(needed)
B	Brushfield spots	Thomas Brushfield
B	Burton line	Henry Burton			(needed)
C	Cabot rings	Richard Cabot
C	Caput medusae	Medusa
C	Cardarelli's sign	?
C	Carey Coombs murmur	Carey Coombs			(needed)
C	Carnett's test	John Carnett			(needed)
C	Carvallo sign	José Carvallo			(needed)
C	Casal collar	Gaspar Casal			(needed)
C	Casoni test	Tommaso Casoni			(needed)
C	Celsus signs of inflammation	Aulus Cornelius Celsus
C	Chaddock reflex	Charles Gilbert Chaddock
C	Chadwick sign	James Read Chadwick	obstetrics
C	Charcot's triad	Jean-Martin Charcot
C	Charcot-Leyden crystals	Jean-Martin Charcot, Ernst Viktor von Leyden
C	Cheyne-Stokes respiration	John Cheyne, William Stokes
C	Churchill-Cope reflex	Edward Delos Churchill, Oliver Cope			(needed)
C	Chvostek's sign	František Chvostek
C	Clark sign	Alonzo Clark			(needed)
C	Claybrook sign	Edwin Claybrook			(needed)
C	Clutton's joints	Henry Hugh Clutton			(needed)
C	Codman's triangle	Ernest Armory Codman
C	Comby sign	Jules Comby			(needed)
C	Coombs test	Robin Coombs
C	Coons fluorescent antibody method	Albert Coons			(needed)
C	Corrigan pulse	Dominic John Corrigan
C	Councilman body	William Councilman
C	Courvoisier's law	Ludwig Georg Courvoisier
C	Crichton-Browne sign	James Crichton-Browne			(needed)
C	Crowe sign	Samuel Crowe
C	Cruveilhier-Baumgarten bruit	Jean Cruveilhier, Paul Clemens von Baumgarten			(needed)
C	Cullen's sign	Thomas Cullen
C	Curschmann spirals	Hans Curschmann
C	Cushing's triad	Harvey Cushing
D	Dahl's sign	?			[1]
D	Dalrymple sign	?
D	Dance's sign	?
D	Darier's sign	?
D	Dawson's fingers	?			[2] [3]
D	De Musset's sign	?
D	Dennie's lines	?			([4])
D	Destot's sign	?			[5]
D	Dix-Hallpike test	?
D	Döhle bodies -	Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle
D	Doi's sign	?			[6]
D	Dunphy sign	?			[7]
D	Duroziez's sign	?
E	Elschnig spots	Anton Elschnig			(needed)
E	Epstein's pearls	?
E	Ewart's sign	?		pericardial effusion
F	facies Hippocratica	Hippocrates
F	Finkelstein's test	?
F	Fordyce spots	?
F	Forschimer spots	?			(needed)
F	Fothergill's sign	?
F	Fox's sign	?			(needed)
F	Frank's sign	?			(needed)
F	Friedreich's sign	?
F	Froment's sign	?	neurology	ulnar nerve palsy
G	Gallavardin dissociation	?			(needed)
G	Gandy-Gamma nodules	?			(needed)
G	Gerhard's sign	?			(needed)
G	Goetz sign	?			(needed)
G	Gond's maneuver	?			(needed)
G	Goodell's sign	?	obstetrics
G	Goodsall's rule	?
G	Gordon's maneuver	?			(needed)
G	Gottron's papules	?
G	Gowers' sign (Gowers' maneuver)	William Richard Gowers
G	Graefe's sign	Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht von Graefe
G	Graham Steell murmur	?			(needed)
G	Grey Turner's sign	?
G	Griffith's sign	?			(needed)
G	Grotton's lesions	?			(needed)
G	Gunn's sign	?			(needed)
H	Hamman's sign	?
H	Hampton's hump	?
H	Hannington-Kiff sign	?			(needed)
H	Harrison's groove	?
H	Hatchcock's sign	?			(needed)
H	Heberden's node	?
H	Hegar's sign	?
H	Hess test	?			(needed)
H	Hill's sign	?
H	Hippocratic face	Hippocrates
H	Hippocratic fingers	Hippocrates
H	Hirschberg test	Julius Hirschberg		test for strabismus
H	Hoffman's sign	?
H	Hollenhorst plaque	?
H	Holmes-Adie syndrome	?
H	Homan's sign	?		thrombosis
H	Hoover’s sign	?			(needed)
H	Howship-Romberg sign	?			(needed)
H	Hutchinson freckle	?			(needed)
H	Hutchinson pupil	?			(needed)
H	Hutchinson's sign	?			(needed)
H	Hutchinson's teeth	?		congenital syphilis
J	Janeway lesion	Theodore Caldwell Janeway
J	Jendrassik maneuver	Ernő Jendrassik	neurology
J	Joffroy sign	?
J	John Thomas sign	?			(needed)
J	Jolly test	?			(needed)
J	Jones criteria	?			(needed)
K	Kanavel's sign	?			(needed)
K	Kayser-Fleischer ring	?
K	Kehr's sign	Hans Kehr		ruptured spleen
K	Kelly's sign	?			(needed)
K	Kerley lines	?
K	Kernig sign	?
K	Koebner's phenomenon	Heinrich Koebner
K	Koeppe's nodules	Leonhard Koeppe			(needed)
K	Koplik's spots	Henry Koplik
K	Korotkoff sounds	Nikolai Korotkov
K	Kussmaul breathing a.k.a. Kussmaul's respiration	Adolph Kussmaul
K	Kussmaul's sign	Adolph Kussmaul
K	Kveim-Siltzbach test	?			(needed)
L	Lachman maneuver	?
L	Ladin's sign	?	obstetrics
L	Lancisi's sign	?
L	Lasègue's sign	?
L	Leopold's maneuver	?	obstetrics
L	Leser-Trelat sign	?
L	Levine's sign	?
L	Lhermitte's sign	Jean Lhermitte	neurology
L	Lisch nodule	?
L	Lisker's sign	?		deep venous thrombosis
L	Litten's sign	?			eMedicine
L	Louvel's sign	?			(needed)
L	Lowenberg's sign	?			ClevelandClinic
M	Macewen's sign	?
M	Magnan's sign	?			(needed)
M	Marcus Gunn pupil	?	neurology
M	Marie's sign	?			(needed)
M	Markle sign	?			(needed)
M	Mayne's sign	?			(needed)
M	McBurney's sign	?
M	McConnell's sign	?	cardiology	pulmonary embolus	(needed)
M	McDonald's sign	?			(needed)
M	McMurray test	?
M	Means-Lerman scratch	?			(needed)
M	Mees' lines	?
M	Mentzer index	?
M	Miller-Fisher test	?			(needed)
M	Monash sign	?			(needed)
M	Möbius's sign	?			(needed)
M	Muehrckle's nails	?			(needed)
M	Mulder's sign	?			(needed)
M	Müller's maneuver	?
M	Müller's sign	?
M	Murphy's punch sign	?		perinephric abscess
M	Murphy's sign	?
M	Myerson's sign	?	neurology	Parkinson's disease
N	Nagel's rule	?			(needed)
N	Nardi test	?	gastroenterology
N	Nelson's syndrome	?
N	Nikolsky's sign	?	dermatology
O	O'Brien's test	?			(needed)
O	O'Donoghue's triad	?		knee injury
O	Oliver's sign	?
O	Oppenheim's sign	?			(needed)
O	Ortolani's sign	?
O	Osborn wave	?			(needed)
O	Osler's node	?
O	Osler's sign	?
P	Palla's sign	?			(needed)
P	Pastia's sign	?			(needed)
P	Patrick's test	?		sacroiliitis
P	Pemberton's sign	?
P	Phalen's maneuver	?
P	Piskacek's sign	?			(needed)
P	Plummer's nail	?			(needed)
P	Pratt's sign	?			(needed)
P	Plummer-Vinson syndrome	?		iron deficiency anemia
Q	Queckenstedt's maneuver	?		spinal stenosis
Q	Quincke's sign	?
R	Reynolds' pentad	?		ascending cholangitis
R	Riesman's sign	?			(needed)
R	Rigler's sign	?
R	Rinne test	?
R	Romana's sign	?		Chagas' disease
R	Romberg test	?
R	Rosenbach's sign	?			(needed)
R	Roth’s spots	?			(needed)
R	Rovsing's sign	?		appendicitis
R	Rumpel-Leede sign	?			(needed)
R	Russell's sign	?
S	Salus's sign	?			(needed)
S	Schafer's maneuver	?			(needed)
S	Schamroth's window test	?
S	Schilling test	?
S	Schirmer's test	?
S	Schober test	?
S	Shone's complex	?			(needed)
S	Siegrist streaks	?
S	Sims-Huhner test	?			(needed)
S	Sister Mary Joseph sign (Sister Joseph Nodule)	?	oncology	gastric cancer
S	Spurling's test	?			(needed)
S	Stellwag's sign	?			(needed)
S	Still's murmur	?	cardiology
S	Stransky's sign	?			(needed)
S	Stroop test	?
S	Strümpell's sign	?			(needed)
S	Susac's syndrome	John Susac
T	Terry's nails	?	neurology	liver disease, others
T	Terry-Thomas's sign	Terry-Thomas			(needed)
T	Thompson's test	?			(needed)
T	Tinel's sign	?	neurology
T	Todd's paresis	?	neurology
T	Tolosa-Hunt syndrome	?
T	Traube's sign	?
T	Trendelenburg gait	Friedrich Trendelenburg	neurology
T	Trendelenburg's sign	Friedrich Trendelenburg	neurology
T	Trousseau's sign	?
U	Uhthoff's phenomenon	?
U	Unterberger test	?	neurology
V	Virchow's triad	Rudolf Virchow
V	Virchow-Robin spaces	?
V	Volkmann's contracture	Richard von Volkmann
V	Von Braun-Fernwalds sign	?			(needed)
V	Von Graefe sign	?		goiter
W	Wada test	?	neurology
W	Waddell's signs	?
W	Watson's water hammer pulse	?
W	Whipple's triad	Allen Whipple	endocrinology	hypoglycemia
W	Wickham's striae	?			(needed)
W	Widal test	?		salmonella
W	Winterbottom's sign	?		trypanosomiasis
W	Wolff-Parkinson-White triad	?			(needed)
W	Wright's maneuver	?			(needed)