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• Orthopaedic
  • Lots of Orthopaedic Terms
  • Bone Related Terms
  • Bone Types
  • Braces
  • Fractures
  • Joint Locations
  • Joint Related Terms
  • Ligament Related Terms
  • Ligament Type
  • Muscle Related Terms
  • Muscle Types
  • Orthopaedic Signs
  • Orthopaedic Tests
  • Splints
  • Sport Terms
  • Sample Reports - Orthopedic
  • Sample Reports - Rheumatology
  • Sample Reports - Podiatry

• Orthopaedic Signs

- A -

• abduction sign
• Achilles bulge sign
• Adam sign
• adduction sign
• Adson sign
• alien hand sign
• Allen sign
• Allis sign
• Amoss sign
• Andr� Thomas sign
• Anghelescu sign
• antecedent sign
• anterior drawer sign
• anterior foot draw sign
• anterior hiatal sign
• anterior tibial sign
• anvil sign
• apprehension sign
• arterial occlusion sign
• Ashhurst sign

- B -

• Babinski sign
• Bancroft sign
• Barlow sign
• Bassett sign
• Battle sign
• bayonet sign
• Beevor sign
• benediction attitude sign
• bite sign
• Bloomberg sign
• bone bruise sign
• bottle sign
• Bouchard sign
• bowstring sign
• bow-tie sign
• Bragard sign
• Brudzinski sign
• Bryant sign
• Burton sign

- C -

• C sign
• camelback sign
• Carman meniscus sign
• cement-wedge sign
• Chaddock sign
• Chinese red line sign
• choppy sea sign
• Clark sign
• clawhand sign
• Cleeman sign
• click sign
• cockade sign
• Codman sign
• cogwheel sign
• Collier sign
• comma sign
• commemorative sign
• Comolli sign
• contralateral sign
• Coopernail sign
• crescent sign
• crest sign
• cupid's bow contour sign

- D -

• David Letterman sign
• Dawbarn sign
• deep lateral femoral notch sign
• Dejerine sign
• Demianoff sign
• Desault sign
• Destot sign
• dimple sign
• divot sign
• dollar sign
• doll's eye sign
• double camelback sign
• double-arc sign
• drawer sign
• drivethrough sign
• drop-arm sign
• Dupuytren sign

- E -

• Earle sign
• Egawa sign
• Erichsen sign
• eye sign

- F -

• fabere sign
• FADIR sign
• Fairbanks sign
• Fajersztajn crossed sciatic sign
• fallen-fragment sign
• fallen-leaf sign
• fan sign
• fat pad sign
• fat-blood interface sign
• FBI sign
• finger in balloon sign
• Finkelstein sign
• fishtail sign
• flag sign
• Fleck sign
• flipped meniscus sign
• fluid sign
• Forestier bowstring sign
• Fr�nkel sign
• Froment paper sign

- G -

• Gaenslen sign
• Gage sign
• Galant sign
• Galeazzi hip dislocation sign
• gear-stick sign
• Goldthwait sign
• Gordon reflex sign
• Gottron sign
• Gowers sign
• grab sign
• Guilland sign
• gun barrel sign

- H -

• half-moon sign
• halo sign
• hanging heel sign
• Harris-Beath footprinting mat sign
• Hawkins impingement sign
• head-at-risk sign
• heel varus sign
• Helbing sign
• hiatal sign
• Hill-Sachs sign
• Hirschberg sign
• Hoffa sign
• Hoffmann sign
• Homans sign
• Hoover sign
• hot-cross-bun skull sign
• Hueter sign
• Huntington sign

- I -

• iliac apophysis sign
• impingement sign

- J -

• J sign
• Jeanne sign
• Jenet sign
• jerk sign
• jump sign

- K -

• Kager fat pad Valleix sign
• Kanavel sign
• Kaplan sign
• Keen sign
• Kehr sign
• Kellgren sign
• Kernig sign
• Kerr sign
• Klippel-Feil sign

- L -

• Lachman sign
• lamp cord sign
• Langoria sign
• Las�gue sign
• lateral capsular sign
• lateral gap sign
• Laugier sign
• Leichtenstern sign
• Leri sign
• Lhermitte sign
• Light V sign
• Linder sign
• long tract sign
• Lorenz sign
• Ludington sign
• Ludloff sign

- M -

• Maisonneuve sign
• Marie-Foix sign
• Martel sign
• masses sign
• Matev sign
• McMurray sign
• Mendel-Bekhterev sign
• Mennell sign
• Meryon sign
• Minor sign
• Morquio sign
• Morton sign
• Morton-Horwitz nerve cross-over sign
• movie sign
• Mudder sign
• Mulder sign

- N -

• Naffziger sign
• Napoleon hat sign
• Neer impingement sign
• Nelson sign
• neuroma sign
• nutcracker sign

- O -

• objective sign
• obturator sign
• ocular sign
• Oppenheim sign
• Ortolani sign

- P -

• painful arc sign
• patellar apprehension sign
• pathognomonic sign
• Patrick sign
• Payr sign
• pedestal sign
• Pelken sign
• percussion sign
• peroneal sign
• piano key sign
• Piotrowski sign
• piriformis sign
• piston sign
• pivot-shift sign
• plantar ecchymosis sign
• Pollock sign
• popliteal pressure sign
• positive impingement sign
• positive rim sign
• posterior column sign
• posterior drawer sign
• posterior hiatal sign
• posterior sag sign
• posterolateral drawer sign
• posteromedial drawer sign
• pronation sign
• pseudo-Babinski sign
• pucker sign
• Putti sign

- Q -

• Queckenstedt sign

- R -

• rachitic rosary sign
• radialis sign
• Raimiste sign
• Renee creak sign
• reverse Hill-Sachs sign
• ribbon sign
• rim sign
• ring sign
• Riordan sign
• Risser sign
• Romberg sign
• root tension sign
• Roux sign
• rugger jersey sign
• Rust sign

- S -

• Sarbo sign
• Schlesinger sign
• sciatic tension sign
• scotty dog sign
• shift sign
• shoulder apprehension sign
• shoulder impingement sign
• somatic sign
• Soto-Hall sign
• Speed sign
• spilled cup sign
• spilled teacup sign
• spine sign
• spur sign
• stair sign
• stepladder sign
• Str�mpell sign
• Strunsky sign
• suction sign
• sulcus sign
• supinator fat pad sign
• swallow-tail sign

- T -

• terminal J sign
• Terry Thomas sign
• theater sign
• thermoregulatory sign
• thick patella sign
• Thomas sign
• Thompson sign
• thorn sign
• Thurston-Holland flag sign
• tibialis sign
• Tinel sign
• Tinel-Hoffmann sign
• toe spread sign
• toggle sign
• too-many-toes sign
• Trendelenburg sign
• tripod sign
• trough sign
• tuck sign
• Turyn sign

- U -

• Uhthoff sign

- V -

• V sign
• vacant glenoid sign
• Valleix sign
• Vanzetti sign
• Voshell sign

- W -

• Waddell sign
• Waldenstr�m sign
• Walker-Murdoch wrist sign
• Wartenberg sign
• Werenskiold sign
• wet leather sign
• Wilson sign
• Wimberger sign
• windshield wiper sign
• wink sign
• winking owl sign

- Y -

• Yergason sign