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• tailor's bunion

a bunion which occurs on the area of pressure?when the legs are crossed in "tailor's fashion."



• tank ears

a condition similar to beach ear incurred from bathing in chlorinated swimming pools.



• tennis elbow

sports injury due to overuse.



• tennis leg

tear at musculotendinous junction of the medial belly of gastrocnemius muscle.



• tennis toe

painful great toe associated with subungual ?hematoma, resulting from wearing steel-toed shoes or tennis shoes with protective tips.



• tenting sign

(1) the diaphragm "tents" up in various chest pathology, seen on x-ray. (2) the skin "tents up" when pinched, seen in elderly patients.



• thyroid storm

patient has a sudden increase of symptoms of thyrotoxicosis.



• tired housewife syndrome

just like it sounds, not strictly limited to housewives.



• trepidation sign

patellar clonus



• trick knee

a knee that locks on occasion



• trigger finger

a finger apt to be affected with a momentary spasmotic arrest of flexion or extension due to stenosing tenosynovitis or a nodule in the flexor tendon.



• tulip finger

dermatitis from handling tulip bulbs



• twin lamb disease (vet)