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Tech enthusiasts and nurse aspirants, this is the third batch of the most important Nursing signs that every nurse and Nursing student should know. With this list, you will become more acquainted with some Nursing terms that are frequently used in school and also in the hospital setting. Read on!

1. Obturator sign – pain upon internal rotation of right ankle while leg is flexed, indicative of appendicitis
2. “mask-like fascies” – facial expressions in Parkinson’s disease
3. Cogwheel rigidity, lead pipe rigidity – in Parkinson’s disease
4. Brushfield spots – pinpoint white dots at the iris; in Down syndrome (refer to the picture)
5. Itchy, burning sensation with or curd-like creamy cheese-like discharge – candidiasis
6. Greenish-yellow discharge – gonorrhea
7. Profuse, bubbly white discharge – trichomoniasis (with petechial spots)
8. Pinpoint vesicles on erythematous vulva – herpes simplex II
9. “blue-berry muffin lesions on newborn” – sign of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in pregnant women
10. Erythema chronicum migrans (macular lesions with clear centers) – present in Lyme disease, a viral disease common to infect pregnant women
11. Yellow-gray, frothy, odorous discharge – trichomoniasis
12. Gray discharge with frothy odor – bacterial vaginosis
13. Gray-white discharge – Chlamydia
14. Painless ulcer (chancre) on vulva – syphilis
15. Cauliflower-like lesions – human papilloma virus (HPV)
16. “skip lesions” – Chron’s disease
17. Couvelaire uterus (board-like) – manifests in abruptio placenta
18. Trendelenburg sign – lurching toward affected side in hip dysplasia
19. Galeazzi’s sign – shortening of femur (hip dysplasia)
20. Ortolani’s sign – “clunk” sound of the femoral head striking the shallow acetabulum, indicative of hip subluxation

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These is the second set of the most important Nursing signs that nurses and tech friends should know. It pays not to be ignorant with some terms especially when we go to the hospital and converse with our doctors. One can use this in the Nursing and other medical fields. Nursing students can even study here and enjoy the benefit of education right from their own personal computers. So go through these second twenty signs and enrich your brain tissues a bit.

1. McBurney’s sign – appendicitis
2. Murphy’s sign – gallbladder disease
3. Homan’s sign – thrombophlebitis
4. Chvostek’s sign – hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia (pancreatitis)
5. Trousseau’s sign – hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia (pancreatitis)
6. Positive Bence Jones Protein – multiple myeloma
7. Reynaud’s Phenomenon – blue, white, reddish discoloration of digits due to decreased oxygen supply
8. Malar (butterfly), discoid rashes – SLE (systemic lupus erythematusus) please refer to the picture below
9. Aschoff bodies – rheumatic fever
10. Koplik’s spot – measles
11. Pink frothy sputum – pulmonary edema
12. Reed Sternberg’s cells – Hodgkin’s disease
13. Abnormal Immunoglobulins G, A, D, E – multiple myeloma
14. Romberg’s sign – loss of balance when asked to close eyes, feet together, stand erect
15. Turners sign – bluish discoloration of the flank ( pancreatitis )
16. Friction rub – pericarditis
17. Knife-like pain – pancreatitis
18. Burning pain – PUD
19. Cramping pain – appendicitis, cholecystitis
20. Rovsing’s sign – appendicitis, applying pressure to the left lower quadrant of the abdomen causes pain on the right lower quadrant (McBurney’s point)

Nurses and tech friends, keep posted for the next sets of Nursing-related concepts only here in this tech site.