Pathognomonic (rare synonym pathognomic) is a term, often used in medicine, that means "characteristic for a particular disease". A pathognomonic sign...
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Negri bodies are eosinophilic, sharply outlined, pathognomonic inclusion bodies (2–10 μm in diameter) found in the cytoplasm of certain nerve cells containing...
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a group of four, while a pentad is a group of five. Medical eponyms Pathognomonic List of eponymously named medical signs Wallenstein, Matthew B.; McKhann...
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are present in as many as 80% of patients; this finding is considered pathognomonic for the syndrome. Other reported bone changes include scoliosis, scapular...
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(urate) in the blood, a condition known as hyperuricemia. Tophi are pathognomonic for the disease gout. Most people with tophi have had previous attacks...
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found for Graves disease under Graves' ophthalmopathy. Medical eponyms Pathognomonic List of medical triads and pentads if the palmar arch is not present...
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non-refractile yellow Gass plaques in the retinal arterioles is near pathognomonic for the disease. Fluorescein angiography may demonstrate leakage in...
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to eradicate lumenal amoebae and prevent relapse. Trophozoite stage Pathognomonic/diagnostic feature Ingested RBC; distinctive nucleus Cyst Stage Chromatoidal...
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process is made easy by a sign or symptom (or a group of several) that is pathognomonic.[citation needed] Diagnosis is a major component of the procedure of...
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closed eyelids in most healthy people and should not be regarded as a pathognomonic sign. Also, traumatic abrasions are generally located in the central...
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(small, dark grey, rodlike particles) and Negri bodies (the larger pathognomonic cellular inclusions of rabies infection) Rabies is caused by a number...
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Diringer H (August 1996). "Sequential appearance and accumulation of pathognomonic markers in the central nervous system of hamsters orally infected with...
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Cardinal signs and symptoms are specific even to the point of being pathognomonic. A cardinal sign or cardinal symptom can also refer to the major sign...
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sclerosis, where it was first described; however, it is not considered pathognomonic for it. It is named after Jean-Martin Charcot. Charcot's triad Charot's...
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with numerous rabies virions (small dark-grey rod-like particles) and Negri bodies (the larger pathognomonic cellular inclusions of rabies infection)...
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especially each one considered individually, and even as a trio they are not pathognomonic for lymphomas, but the presence of the trio is sensitive enough for...
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The appearance of a separate J wave or Osborn wave at the J-point is pathognomonic of hypothermia or hypercalcemia. ST segment The ST segment connects...
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infectious: multiple tuberculomas and fibrinous pericarditis as symptoms pathognomonic for tuberculosis of Frederic Chopin" (PDF). Journal of Applied Genetics...
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cases of acute cardiac tamponade, presence of the triad is considered pathognomonic for the condition. Sternbach G (1988). "Claude Beck: cardiac compression...
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Gottron's sign is a pathognomonic cutaneous manifestation associated with dermatomyositis (DM), which is an inflammatory disorder affecting the skin and...
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Occupying Power." In medicine, the term sine qua non (in contrast with pathognomonic) is often used in regard to any sign, symptom, or finding whose absence...
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on the buccal mucosa (opposite the upper 1st & 2nd molars) and are pathognomonic for measles. The textbook description of Koplik spots is ulcerated mucosal...
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This EEG facilitates the differential diagnosis of AS, but is not pathognomonic. Three distinct interictal patterns are seen in these patients. The...
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mineralized by iron and calcium deposits.[citation needed] M-G bodies are a pathognomonic feature of malakoplakia, an inflammatory condition that affects the...
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PMID 11918555. van Genderen P, Michiels J (1997). "Erythromelalgia: a pathognomonic microvascular thrombotic complication in essential thrombocythemia and...
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positive predictive value is high enough for it to be regarded as a pathognomonic sign of Hodgkin lymphoma. The pain typically has an onset within minutes...
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Sredzińska-Kita D, Bakunowicz-Lazarczyk A, Piszcz M (2005). "[High myopia as a pathognomonic sign in Stickler's syndrome]". Klinika Oczna (in Polish). 107 (4–6):...
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3 layers of the heart, a pathological change named pancarditis. The pathognomonic feature of pancarditis in the case of rheumatic heart disease is the...
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: 5 osteopsathyrosis idiopathica: 347 Blue sclerae are a classic non-pathognomonic sign of osteogenesis imperfecta. Pronunciation /ˌɒstioʊˈdʒɛnəsɪs ˌɪmpɜːrˈfɛktə/...
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hemianopsia, and, when there is no relevant trauma, this clinical finding is pathognomonic for a pituitary tumor. Some pituitary adenomas can extend inferiorly...
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