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Medicine- Buzzwords
Year 3
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Undergraduate 3
04/08/2013
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Oligoclonal Bands in CSF -
 Definition
MS
Term
Festinant Gait -
 Definition
Parkinsons
Term
Post-ictal limb weakness -
 Definition
Todd’s palsy
Term
Champagne Bottle Legs -
 Definition
Charcot Marie Tooth
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Olfactory hallucinations + plucking/lipsmacking + sour taste -
 Definition
temporal lobe epilepsy
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Indometacin responsive headache -
 Definition
paroxysmal hemicrania or hemicrania continua
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Sentinel headache -
 Definition
Heralds a SAH
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xanthochromia CSF -
 Definition
subarachnoid haemorrhage
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Concave/crescent sign on CT brain -
 Definition
subdural haemorrhage
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Convex sign on CT brain-
 Definition
extradural haemorrhage
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Nuchal rigidity -
 Definition
SAH or Meningitis
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Back pain worse on extension-
 Definition
stenosis
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Back pain worse on flexion-
 Definition
disc prolapse
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Asymmetrical distal weakness + thumb sparring -
 Definition
inclusion body myositis
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Cape-like spinothalamic loss + upper limb weakness -
 Definition
central cord syndrome
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Urinary incontinence + confusion + ataxia -
 Definition
normal pressure hydrocephalus
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Deltion of dystrophin + gowers -
 Definition
Duchennes
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Defective dystrophin (+ gower’s sign) -
 Definition
Beckers
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Lead pipe rigiditiy + antipsychotics -
 Definition
neuroleptic malignant syndrome
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Ascending weakness + past infection -
 Definition
Guillain Barre
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Single palmar (simian) crease -
 Definition
Downs
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Brushfield Spots -
 Definition
Downs Syndrome
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Knife Blade atrophy -
 Definition
Picks Disease
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obese + OCP + headache -
 Definition
Benign intracranial hypertension
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band like distribution (headache) -
 Definition
tension headache
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Unilateral headache + lacrimation -
 Definition
cluster headache
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Tongue fasciculations -
 Definition
motor neurone disease
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Cogwheel rigidity -
 Definition
Parkinsons
Term
Micrographia -
 Definition
Parkinsons
Term
Mamillary Body Atrophy -
 Definition
Wernickes
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Dementia in young alcoholic -
 Definition
Wernickes or Korsakoffs
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Neurofibrillary tangles, Tau protein, Amyloid Plaques -
 Definition
Alzheimers
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visual loss “like a curtain coming down” -
 Definition
Amaurosis Fugax
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Bullous pale retina -
 Definition
retinal detachment
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Horse-shoe tear -
 Definition
(posterior vitreous) retinal detachment
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Arcuate defect -
 Definition
glaucoma
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Central scotoma -
 Definition
ARMD or optic neuritis
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Pizza pie fundus -
 Definition
CMV infection
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Keratinic precipitates-
 Definition
Anterior uveitis
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Hammer/chisel injury -
 Definition
intra-ocular foreign body until proven otherwise
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Dentritic ulcer -
 Definition
herpetic viral keratitis
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Chalazia -
 Definition
posterior blepharitis
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Tunnel vision -
 Definition
Open angle glaucoma
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Drusen’s sign -
 Definition
dry ARMD
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Metamorphopsia -
 Definition
wet ARMD
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Floaters/flashes -
 Definition
retinal detachment
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visual defect abiding a horizontal plane
 Definition
ION
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>50 yrs + painful + haloes + cloudy cornea +hard eyeball -
 Definition
acute closed angle glaucoma
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Cherry Red Spot -
 Definition
CRAO (or Tay Sachs or Niemann-Pick)
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Argyll Robertson Pupil -
 Definition
Neurosyphilis (or Adie or Parinaud Syndrome)
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Night blindness + tunnel vision -
 Definition
Retinitis pigmentosa
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“Golfball”-lump in breast -
 Definition
carcinoma
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Post-menopausal bleeding + >4cm thick endometrium-
 Definition
endometrial carcinoma until proven otherwise
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↑ AFP, Lemon sign, banana sign -
 Definition
spina bifida
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Painless , hard nipple -
 Definition
breast cancer until proven otherwise
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Bloody nipple discharge -
 Definition
intraduct papilloma or duct ectasia
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Cyclical breast pain -
 Definition
fibrocystic change
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Painless, firm, mobile lump in breast (i.e “breast mouse”) -
 Definition
fibroadenoma
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gram negative dipolococci -
 Definition
Gonorrhoea
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Koilocytosis -
 Definition
HPV
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Chocolate Cysts -
 Definition
Endometriosis
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Chancre -
 Definition
Syphilis
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Streaky Ovaries -
 Definition
Turners
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Strawberry Cervix -
 Definition
Trichomonas
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Green/Yellow, frothy, foul smelling discharge -
 Definition
Trichomonas
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Clue Cells + fishy smell + vaginal pH>4.5 -
 Definition
Bacterial Vaginosis/Garnderella
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Honey coloured crust -
 Definition
Impetigo
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Fever, stridor, sitting up and drooling -
 Definition
acute epiglottitis
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Palatal petichiae and atypical lymphocytes -
 Definition
infectious mononucleosis
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Fever, sore throat, lymphadenopathy -
 Definition
infectious mononucleosis
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Suboccipital lymphadenopathy -
 Definition
rubella
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Cafe au lait +lisch nodules-
 Definition
neurofibromatosis
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Heberden Nodes (DIP) -
 Definition
Osteoarthritis
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flame-shaped / lancet-shaped diplococci -
 Definition
strep pneumoniae
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Heliotrope rash on eyelids -
 Definition
Dermatamyositis
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Needle shaped crystals -
 Definition
gout
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Rhomboid crystals -
 Definition
pseudogout
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Kimmelstiel Wilson nodules -
 Definition
diabetic nephropathy
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Reed Steinberg cells -
 Definition
Hodgkins Lymphoma
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Osler Nodes -
 Definition
endocarditis
Term
JAneway lesion -
 Definition
endocarditis
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Boutonniere deformity -
 Definition
rheumatoid
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Bence Jones Protein -
 Definition
Multiple myeloma
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Lytic Bone Lesions -
 Definition
multiple myeloma
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Philadelphia Chromosome t(9;22) -
 Definition
CML
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Murphys SIgn -
 Definition
Acute Cholecystitis
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Skip Lesions -
 Definition
Crohns
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Bamboo Spine -
 Definition
Ankylosing Spondylitis
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Cobblestoning -
 Definition
Crohns
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Kerley B lines -
 Definition
pulmonary oedema due to heart failure
Term
Kayser Fleischer Ring -
 Definition
Wilsons Disease
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