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This list is available for the Palm Pilot at Andrew Yee's website.
Imerslund-Grösbeck syndrome |
An autosomal recessive condition where transport inward of cobalamin from ileal receptors is faulty; associated with megaloblastic anemia, proteinuria, renal tubular defects, and various congenital abnormalities of the renal pelvis and ureter | ||||||||||||
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Irish’s node |
Left axillary adenopathy associated with metastatic disease, e.g. gastric CA | ||||||||||||
Isaacs’s syndrome |
Neuromyotonia; continuous muscle stiffness, rippling muscle movements (myokymia), delayed relaxation following muscle contraction believed to be due to autoantibodies to presynaptic potassium channels | ||||||||||||
Ishihara plates |
Pseudoisochromatic plates (plates with color dots for numbers) for testing color vision | ||||||||||||
Ito cells |
Vitamin A fat-storage cells, of mesenchymal origin found in the space of Disse; during development of cirrhosis, they become activated, transform into fibroblast-like cells | ||||||||||||
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Jaccoud’s arthritis |
In SLE, ulnar deviation of the fingers, swan neck deformities, and subluxations, initially reversible but can become fixed | ||||||||||||
Jackson-Weiss syndrome |
Craniosynostoses as well as limb defects, mutations if FGFR2, broad great toes | ||||||||||||
Janeway lesions |
In infective endocarditis; nonpainful, small, erythematous or hemorrhagic macules or nodules of palms or soles; more common in acute bacterial endocarditis but occur in subacute bacterial endocarditis | ||||||||||||
Jansen metaphyseal chondrodysplasia |
An autosomal dominant form of dwarfism resulting from an activating mutation in the PTHrP receptor, premature ossification from acceleration of the transition from proliferative to hypertrophic chondrocytes | ||||||||||||
Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction |
Sudden fevers, rigors, and persistent hypotension following antimicrobial treatment of louse-borne relapsing fever (Borrelia recurrentis (spirochete) infection) or syphilis; treatment with anti-TNF-alpha Fab before penicillin suppresses this reaction (NEJM 335:311) | ||||||||||||
Jendrassik maneuver |
Subject grips hands and pulls apart to facilitate lower extremity reflex testing | ||||||||||||
Jod-Basedow phenomenon |
Thyroid hyperfunction induced by excess iodine ingestion in patients with various thyroid disorders; Jod German for iodine; K. A. Von Basedow | ||||||||||||
Joffroy sign |
In thyrotoxicosis, absence of forehead wrinkling with upward gaze, the head being tilted down; disorder of the arithmetic faculty in the early stages of organic brain disease | ||||||||||||
Jolly test |
Good test for distinguishing between Lambert-Eton syndrome and myasthenia gravis. Friedrich Jolly, German neurologist, 1844-1904 | ||||||||||||
Jones’s fracture |
Fracture at the base of the fifth metatarsal diaphysis | ||||||||||||
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From Andrew Yee, Harvard Med '00