- Trousseau phenomenon
- spasmodic contractions of muscles provoked by pressure upon the nerves which go to them; seen in tetany.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Trousseau phenomenon
Look at other dictionaries:
Trousseau phenomenon sign syndrome twitching — Trous·seau phenomenon, sign, syndrome, twitching (troo soґ) [Armand Trousseau, French physician, 1801–1867] see under phenomenon, sign, syndrome, and twitching … Medical dictionary
Trousseau sign of latent tetany — is a medical sign observed in patients with low calcium. [Kumar, Abbas, Fausto. Pathologic Basis of Disease, 7th edition. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders, 2005. 1188.] This sign may become positive before other gross manifestations of… … Wikipedia
Trousseau sign of malignancy — The Trousseau sign of malignancy is a medical sign found in certain cancers that is associated with venous thrombosis[1] and hypercoagulability. It is also referred to as Trousseau syndrome[2] and is distinct from the Trousseau sign of latent… … Wikipedia
Trousseau-Zeichen — Das Trousseau Zeichen ist ein klinischer Hinweis auf eine vorliegende Tetanie, beispielsweise im Rahmen eines Hypoparathyreoidismus . Tritt nach dem Aufpumpen einer Blutdruckmanschette über den systolischen Blutdruck hinaus eine Pfötchenstellung… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Trousseau sign — 1. see under phenomenon. 2. tache cйrйbrale … Medical dictionary
List of cutaneous conditions — This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries. See also: Cutaneous conditions, Category:Cutaneous conditions, and ICD 10… … Wikipedia
GENIZAH, CAIRO — Introduction The term genizah is a word shortened from the rabbinical Hebrew phrase bet genizah (see also genizah ). Its counterpart in late biblical Hebrew is genez (pl. genazim, ginzei) which in Esther evidently means a treasury, as well as the … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Sign — Any abnormality that indicates a disease process, such as a change in appearance, sensation, or function, that is observed by a physician when evaluating a patient. * * * 1. Any abnormality indicative of disease, discoverable on examination of… … Medical dictionary
syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… … Medical dictionary
body — 1. The head, neck, trunk, and extremities. The human b., consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra). 2. The material part of a human, as distinguished from the … Medical dictionary
