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In medicine, Murphy's sign (also known as Sweeney’s sign) is a maneuver during a physical examination as part of the abdominal examination. [1] It is useful for differentiating pain in the right upper quadrant. Typically, it is positive in cholecystitis, but negative in choledocholithiasis, pyelonephritis, and ascending cholangitis.
A Sonographic Murphy sign is a finding when performing diagnostic medical sonography.It is different from the Murphy sign found on physical examination, but both signs are associated with cholecystitis [1] When the sonographer presses directly over the gallbladder, and the patient expresses pain, more than when the sonographer presses anywhere else, this is said to be a positive sonographic ...
An abdominal examination is a portion of the physical examination which a physician or nurse uses to clinically observe the abdomen of a patient for signs of disease. The abdominal examination is conventionally split into four different stages: first, inspection of the patient and the visible characteristics of their abdomen.
Müller's sign at Who Named It? visible pulsation or bobbing of uvula: Murphy's punch sign: John B. Murphy: urology: perinephric abscess: Murphy's punch at Who Named It? punch tenderness at the costovertebral angle Murphy's sign: John B. Murphy: surgery: cholecystitis: Murphy's sign at Who Named It? hesitation on inspiration while gall bladder ...
This medical test was first described by the American surgeon John Benjamin Murphy in 1884. In the Post-Soviet states and Eastern Europe it is often called Pasternacki's sign after Belarusian internist Fiodor Ignatjevich Pasternacki, who described it during his rounds in a regional hospital in Minsk in 1888.
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).
According to the British Medical Journal, Murphy's triad consists of "pain in the abdomen followed by nausea or vomiting, and general abdominal sensitiveness on the right side, followed by an elevated body temperature." Although the original notes on Murphy's triad includes four signs (the fourth being a rise in temperature), it may be noted ...
In medicine, shifting dullness refers to a sign elicited on physical examination for ascites (fluid in the peritoneal cavity). [1]The two steps of shifting dullness. Percussion of the green section shifts from a dull note to a tympanic note after the patient changes from supine to lateral decubitu