In many internal inflammations heat is much complained of; and in Enteritis it has been considered a pathognomonic symptom.
Without attaching pathognomonic significance to stigmata, we may remark how seldom they are encountered among those who suffer from tic, and how rarely the latter exhibit any of the paroxysmal manifestations of hysteria.
The first of these symptoms is of no pathognomonic value, and while the others no doubt are characteristic of organic disease, their development in this instance is too imperfect to warrant the deduction of pyramidal involvement.
This, the pathognomonic sign of either condition, was always present in the fully developed stage, and is probably present from the first unless a temporary thrombosis obstructs the vascular openings.
This complication was not so common as to be regarded as a constant and pathognomonic sign of Greek elephantiasis, but it is noted as an important and frequent one, by various authors, both ancient and modern.
In defining the first species of this genus (or the Greek elephantiasis of other authors), he introduces as its three pathognomonic symptoms, the first and fourth characters of Cullen and a part of the second.
In these two extremes, and in all the intermediate degrees, the patient is simply lame--pathognomonic minutiæ being considered and settled in a place of their own.
To obtain the benefit of this pathognomonic sign requires deliberate, careful, and gentle manipulation.
The manner of the progression is pathognomonic of the complaint.
The pathognomonic symptom of open stifle joint is the profuse escape of synovia, indicating perforation of the synovial capsule; by means of a probe the wound may be explored in a way that will clearly reveal the nature of the injury.
The pathognomonic symptoms of the existence of an open joint is the exposure to view of articular surfaces of bones or noting the escape of synovia from the joint capsule.
Lameness is usually intense and where the pathognomonic symptom (crepitation) is not recognized, the intensity of the claudication, when other causes are absent, is indicative of fracture.
And in many instances, considerable manipulation of the phalanges is necessary before the pathognomonic symptom is to be recognized.
The pathognomonic symptom is the lax tendon during weight bearing, which may be felt by palpation of the tendon along its course in the metacarpal region.
The pathognomonic symptom here is recognition of crepitation, but this may be very difficult to recognize in fracture of condyles, and in such instances, a careful examination is necessary.
Edematous swellings are recognized by palpation,--the characteristic indentations which may be made in dropsical swellings are pathognomonic indicators.
Defn: Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom.
The first manifestation of anasarca, the pathognomonic symptom of wet beriberi, is in an oedematous condition of the areolar tissue of the anterior part of the legs.
While there is no one symptom pathognomonicof yellow fever in every stage of the disease, its differential diagnosis is nearly always possible.
The insidious invasion of typhoid fever, together with the absence of pathognomonic symptoms in the beginning, always renders the diagnosis difficult, and sometimes impossible, during the first week.
They are not pathognomonic of any one malady, although often referred to the gouty diathesis.
Many scorbutic cases, however, lack this so-called pathognomonic feature.
Some conditions are especially pathognomonic in the dog.
If the question be put, Are teeth of the type describedpathognomonic of syphilis?
Oedema is a characteristic and pathognomonic symptom of trichinosis, and is seldom so slight as to escape attention.
This symptom often presents characters which, if not pathognomonic of dilatation, at least raise a strong presumption in favor of its presence.
In making a differential diagnosis of gastric ulcer, as well as of any disease, reliance should be placed more upon the whole complexion of the case than upon any fanciedpathognomonic symptoms.
To Von der Velden's symptom no pathognomonic value can be attached, but it may prove, in connection with other symptoms, an aid in diagnosis.
Absence of the normal anterior and downward movement of the carina on deep inspiration is almost pathognomonic of a mass at the bifurcation, and such a mass is usually tuberculous, though it may be malignant, and, very rarely, luetic.
Sudden shutting off of the expiratory blast and the phonation during paroxysmal cough is almost pathognomonic of a movable tracheal foreign body.
The possibility of a stone being present should not be hinted to the patient until some definite pathognomonicsign is discovered.
At the beginning the pains were vague, but after she had been to several physicians and had been asked certain questions intended to elicit pathognomonic signs of stone these questions were answered in the affirmative.
Darling described enlargement of the heart, especially a right-sided hypertrophy, which he thought was pathognomonic of the Rand type of scurvy.
Hemorrhage is such a striking manifestation that it is not surprising to find it was regarded by the older writers as the pathognomonic sign of scurvy.
It seems as though there were, as a pathognomonic sign of the morbid process, a lack of energy and loss of the normal élan vital.
This pathognomonic symptom of dementia præcox frequently occurs in the onset to malignant stupors.
Although apathy is the central pathognomonic symptom of stupor conditions, there are other mood anomalies to be noted.
As a matter of fact, in many if not most cases there is a slow onset characterized by the pathognomonic symptoms of dementia præcox before the actual stupor sets in.
Even such symptoms as poverty and dissociation of affect, usually regarded as pathognomonic of dementia præcox, have been described in the foregoing chapters.
The characteristic and pathognomonic “Koplik spots” on the buccal mucous membrane in measles are, of course, absent in smallpox.
