| A | B |
|---|
| Rovsing | Right lower quadrant pain intensified by left lower quadrant abdominal palpation |
| Peritoneal irritation; appendicitis | Rovsing |
| Right lower quadrant pain intensified by left lower quadrant abdominal palpation | Peritoneal irritation; appendicitis |
| Romberg-Howship | Pain down the medial aspect of the thigh to the knees |
| Strangulated obturator hernia | Romberg-Howship |
| Pain down the medial aspect of the thigh to the knees | Strangulated obturator hernia |
| Murphy | Abrupt cessation of inspiration on palpation of gallbladder |
| Cholecystitis | Murphy |
| Abrupt cessation of inspiration on palpation of gallbladder | Cholecystitis |
| Appendicitis | Rebound tenderness and sharp pain when McBurney point is palpated |
| McBurney | Appendicitis |
| Markle (heel jar) | Patient stands with straightened knees, then raises up on toes, relaxes, and allows heels to hit floor, thus jarring body. Action will cause abdominal pain if positive |
| Peritoneal irritation; appendicitis | Markle (heel jar) |
| Patient stands with straightened knees, then raises up on toes, relaxes, and allows heels to hit floor, thus jarring body. Action will cause abdominal pain if positive | Peritoneal irritation; appendicitis |
| Aaron | Pain or distress occurs in the area of the patient's heart or stomach on palpation of McBurney point |
| Appendicitis | Aaron |
| Blumberg | Rebound tenderness |
| Peritoneal irritation; appendicitis | Blumberg |
| Rebound tenderness | Peritoneal irritation; appendicitis |
| Ballance | Fixed dullness to percussion in left flank, and dullness in right flank that disappears on change of position |
| Peritoneal irritation | Ballance |
| Fixed dullness to percussion in left flank, and dullness in right flank that disappears on change of position | Peritoneal irritation |
| Cullen | Ecchymosis around umbilicus |
| Hemoperitoneum; pancreatitis; ectopic pregnancy | Cullen |
| Ecchymosis around umbilicus | Hemoperitoneum; pancreatitis; ectopic pregnancy |
| Dance | Absence of bowel sounds in right lower quadrant |
| Intussusception | Dance |
| Absence of bowel sounds in right lower quadrant | Intussusception |
| Grey Turner | Ecchymosis of flanks |
| Hemoperitoneum; pancreatitis | Grey Turner |
| Ecchymosis of flanks | Hemoperitoneum; pancreatitis |
| Kehr | Spleen rupture; renal calculi; ectopic pregnancy |
| Abdominal pain radiating to left shoulder | Kehr |
| Spleen rupture; renal calculi; ectopic pregnancy | Abdominal pain radiating to left shoulder |
| Oasthouse urine disease (methionine) | Yeastlike, celery |
| Uremia (di-, trimethylamines) | Rotting fish |
| Stale water | Acute tubular necrosis |
| Violets | Turpentine ingestion |
| Medicinal | Antibiotics: penicillin, cephalosporin |
| Ammonia | Urea-splitting bacteria (especially Proteus) |
