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Normal ear anatomy Earlobe creases seen in a Japanese angina patient. Frank's sign is a diagonal crease in the ear lobe extending from the tragus across the lobule to the rear edge of the auricle. [1] The sign is named after Sanders T. Frank. [1] It has been hypothesised that Frank's sign is indicative of cardiovascular disease [2] [3] and/or ...
But more recent studies have concluded that, since earlobes become more creased with age, and older people are more likely to have heart disease than younger people, age rather than intrinsic factors may account for the findings linking heart attack to earlobe creases. [24] The earlobe crease is also called Frank's Sign.
Frank's sign: Sanders T. Frank: cardiology: ischaemic heart disease: ear crease indicating risk of heart disease (disputed) Friedreich's sign: Nikolaus Friedreich: cardiology: constrictive pericarditis, tricuspid insufficiency: collapse of distended neck veins in diastole Froment's sign: Jules Froment: neurology: ulnar nerve palsy
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Scan of Figure 2, from Darwin's Descent of Man, second edition, illustrating Darwin's tubercle. This atavistic feature is so called because its description was first published by Charles Darwin in the opening pages of The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, as evidence of a vestigial feature indicating common ancestry among primates which have pointy ears.
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[8] [9] Some cases of pointed ears may be due to trauma to ears during labor, and the ear crease may unfold with time. [citation needed] The pointed ear(s) in Stahl's ear is caused by misshapen cartilage. It is characterized by an extra horizontal fold of cartilage (crus). Normally, there are two: superior and inferior.