What is the most popular buzzword ever?

[NebelDO]

just wanted to see what people think is the most classical one seen. i know that the tests try to avoid them now but wanted to see what people think..

My fav is the classical "winged scapula"....

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[MCG]

i wouldnt say its the most popular , but my favorite is the
explosive rice water diarrhea of cholera.

 

[phllystyl]

Originally posted by MCG
i wouldnt say its the most popular , but my favorite is the
explosive rice water diarrhea of cholera.

Ill kick in one:

"flask-shaped ulcers"

 

[realruby2000]

Originally posted by phllystyl
Ill kick in one:

"flask-shaped ulcers"

whats that one for???

and while we're at it...neurofibrary (sp?) tangles for Alzheimer's
disease

 

[mpp]

Originally posted by realruby2000
whats that one for???

and while we're at it...neurofibrary (sp?) tangles for Alzheimer's
disease

Entamoeba histolytica

 

[jaeida8]

boot-shaped heart

 

[doc05]

strawberry tongue.

 

[Non-Trad DO]

Butterfly facial rash, waiters tip, foot slap...

 

[Idiopathic]

blue sclera.
lens detahcment + arachnodactyly.
rocker-bottom feet.
yeasts phagocytized in macrophages.

 

[kutastha]

water hammer pulse

to which I ask, "wtf is a water hammer?"

 

[Stinger86]

Mousy odor, cafe-au-lait spots, splinter hemorrhages

 

[NewGuyBob]

Currant jelly stools

broomstick extremities

bag of worms (This one really freaks me out!)

chipmunk facies

 

[Daiphon]

don't forget the ever classic:

"worst headache of my life"

and

"polydipsia/polyuria/polyphagia" (although admittedly, this complex doesn't single out one particular entity... oh well)

 

[sanfilippo]

staccato cough

-s.

 

[NebelDO]

dontforget about the famous Kayser Fleisher rings----wilsons

machine like murmur-PDA

Tophus- Gout

 

[DrSmiles]

"Honey-crusted lesions"
"slapped cheek appearance"
"Argyll-Robertson pupils"
"pill-roll resting tremor" and "mask-like facies"
"cherry red spot on macula"

 

[realruby2000]

got another one

bulls eye rash = lyme disease

 

[Fah-Q]

fruity breath=acetone=dka

now how do you know they aren't just chewing fruity gum???

 

[NebelDO]

string sign-crohn's

 

[NebelDO]

Non caseating granulomas..Crohn's or Sarcoidosis

 

[Yosh]

Cog wheel rigidity-->Parkinson

cobblestone-->Crohn's

slapped check--> 5th's Dz

Steeple Sign on X-ray-->croup

curly b line's on X-ray--> CHF

 

[edmadison]

Originally posted by doc05
strawberry tongue.

Don't forget the ever popular strawberry cervix, or at least she was popular at one point.

Ed

 

[Daiphon]

i might also add...

chandelier sign --> PID

-t

 

[DrQuinn]

"substernal crushing chest pain"
"projectile nonbilious vomiting"
"daytime somnolescence"
"fall on outstretched hand"
"pain in the anatomical snuffbox"
"pulsatile abdominal mass"

Q, DO

 

[DOtobe]

Reed-Sternberg cells

non-caseating granulomas (edit...damn, NebelDO already got that one...)

Ghon complex

"whiff test" (yuck)

And I'm sure I'll think of more later..

 

[scootad.]

lumpy bumpy immune complexes

 

[dana1976]

i can't remember what these three are - can you guys help me out?


water hammer pulse?
broomstick extremities?
staccato cough?

 

[Green912]

"scotty dog"

 

[Daiphon]

what about "Koplik's Spots"

 

[Idiopathic]

Originally posted by dana1976
i can't remember what these three are - can you guys help me out?


water hammer pulse?
broomstick extremities?
staccato cough?

WH pulse = aortic regurgitation
broomstick extremities = Marfans(?)
staccato cough = chlamydia trachomatis pneumonia (often mistaken for chlamydia pneumoniae...different things).

 

[Idiopathic]

Originally posted by QuinnNSU
"substernal crushing chest pain"
"projectile nonbilious vomiting"
"daytime somnolescence"
"fall on outstretched hand"
"pain in the anatomical snuffbox"
"pulsatile abdominal mass"

Q, DO

All classics...

 

[Yosh]

bite cells

target cells

heinz bodies

can ya tell I got pimped on blood and r.e. today??


wrist drop-->lead poisoning/hearvy metal poisoning

--neuro passed by when I was getting blood pimped and threw that in....

 

[MasterintuBater]

red snappers

buffalo hump

bird's beak

scotty dog

butterfly rash

alligator (Hutchinson's) teeth

scorpion sting (pancreatitis)

barking cough

crit-du-chat

sorry, some repeats, but they all fit

Any other animal pearls?

 

[eyeCU]

Originally posted by Green912
"scotty dog"

what's scotty dog? four years of med school and i've never heard of that one! am i missing something?

 

[MasterintuBater]

scotty dog = appearance of lumbar spine on oblique view in spondylolysis

 

[NebelDO]

for the scotty dog you look to see if it has a "collar" which would be a fracture of the pars interartciularis..

 

[eyeCU]

Originally posted by MasterintuBater
scotty dog = appearance of lumbar spine on oblique view in spondylolysis

Originally posted by NebelDO for the scotty dog you look to see if it has a "collar" which would be a fracture of the pars interartciularis..

cool thanks, might come in handy since i'm taking my step 2 (finally) in a couple of days. still doesn't even vaguely ring a bell though ...guess that's why i'm doing ophtho and not ortho.

 

[adamant]

How about these:

mosaic pattern of lamellar bone

signet-ring cells

"orphan annie" nuclei

"bird beak" X-Ray

 

[phllystyl]

Shotgun calcification

 

[DOtobe]

Philadelphia chromosome

target cells

(can you tell i was just reading hem/onc stuff? )

 

[DrQuinn]

Originally posted by eyeCU
cool thanks, might come in handy since i'm taking my step 2 (finally) in a couple of days. still doesn't even vaguely ring a bell though ...guess that's why i'm doing ophtho and not ortho.

Definately know the scotty dog as well as all the spondylolisthesis stuff... it showed up a lot on my step 2.

Q, DO

 

[fernj1975]

Sister Mary Joseph sign which is my all time favorite. It's metastasis of gastric cancer to the umbilicus. I still don't understand why its called that but I believe it probably deals with its poor prognosis.

 

[Vincristine]

I second (or third) the "worst headache of my life" (but what if it's just a wussy pt who doesn't get headaches?)

fernj, tomorrow is my surgery shelf and in the 8 million hours of studying I've done no one has yet to actually explain the Sister Mary Joseph nodule, and being over the edge I looked it up: www.turner-white.com/pdf/hp_may01_sister.pdf

Sister Mary Joseph became a surgical assistant under Dr. William Mayo at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, MN (which later went on to become Mayo Clinic). She was Dr. Mayo's right hand lady, and first noted that the presence of an unbilical nodule usually indicated the presence of advanced abdominal cancer. The phrase wasn't coined until 1949 by H. Baily in Physical Signs in Clinical Surgery . And yes, it's bad news.


"toxic megacolon"

 

[The Pill Counter]

Along the lines of the above poster: Virchow's node (Sentinel node, Troisier's node) - in the left supraclavicular fossa, sign of gastric malignancy.

 

[MCG]

Lewy body - parkinsons
Aschoff Body - rheumatic fever
Ferriguous body - asbestos
Dohle body - forgot
Fruiting body- aspergillus
Heinz body - G6PD

 

[docuw]

it might be helpful to write what your buzzwords are associated with. These are fun to read, but a couple have slipped my mind. Would be great to just see the association, rather than look it up.

Keep them coming.

"Floppy baby" - Werdnig-Hoffman (also botulism if honey from GMa)

 

[MasterintuBater]

Has anyone heard of "Starry Sky" before or was this just one of my Path professor's unique pearls?

 

[docuw]

stary sky is with burkitts lymphoma, assoc with EBV

 

[hndrx1a]

RISUS SARDONICUS

 

[orthoman5000]

eyes "down and out" (CN III lesion).