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CD - Pathognomonic
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Trismus | Tetanus |
| Trismus | Lockjaw |
| risus sardonicus | Tetanus |
| Risus sardonicus | raised eyebrows and grinning |
| Opisthotonus | Tetanus |
| Opisthotonus | backward arching of the head, neck and spine |
| Nuchal rigidity | neck stiffness |
| Kernig's sign | pain on knee flexion |
| Brudzinski sign | knee flex when the neck is flexed |
| Myoclonus | Encephalitis |
| Hoyne's sign | Poliomyelitis |
| Hoyne's sign | head drop |
| Opisthotonus | Poliomyelitis |
| Tripod position | Poliomyelitis |
| Pseudomembrane | Diphtheria |
| Bull neck | Diphtheria |
| Barking cough | Diphtheria |
| Nocturnal, dry cugh | Pertussis |
| Abdominal hernia | Pertussis |
| Rusty sputum | Pneumonia |
| Pleuritic chest pain | pneumonia |
| Cough up phlegm and blood | Tuberculosis |
| Night sweats | Tuberculosis |
| Afternoon rise of temperature | TB |
| Rigor's headache | Anthrax |
| Temperature rises while experiencing severe shivering accompanied by feeling of coldness | Rigor's ehadache |
| Watery or blood-mucoid diarrhea | Dysentery |
| Rice watery stools | Cholera |
| Rose spots on lower chest and abdomen | Typhoid fever |
| Loss of eyebrows and eyelashes | Madarosis |
| Saddle nose | Leprosy |
| Madarosis | Leprosy |
| Cutaneous skin lesions | Leprosy |
| Inability to close eyelids | Lagophthalmos |
| lagophthalmos | Leprosy |
| Natura amputation | Leprosy |
| Koplik's spots | Measles |
| Forchheimer's spot | German measles |
| Pinkish rash on the soft palate | Forchheimer's spot |
| Grayish spots on the center within the cheeks | Koplik's spots |
| Blueberry muffin skin | Thrombocytopenic purpura |
| Blueberry muffin skin | Congenital rubella |
| Rashes spreads cephalocaudal | Chickenpox |
| Pock marks | Chickenpox |
| Clustered unilateral vesicles | Shingles |
| Rashes are "islets of whites in a sea of reds" | Dengue |
| Kaposi's sarcoma | cancer of blood vessel walls |
| Kaposi's sarcoma | HIV/AIDS |
| Purulent urethral discharge | Gonorrhea |
| Nonpruritic chancres | Syphilis |
| Condylomata | Syphilis |
| GUMMA | Syphilis |
| Clear discharge from penis | trichomoniasis |
| white or greenish-yellow discharge from vagina | Trichomoniasis |
| strawberry to raspberry tongue | scarlet fever |
| low grade afternoon fever, ngith sweat | TB |
| ladder-like fever | typhoid fever |
| remittnet fever | typhoid fever |
| diarrhea with tenesmus | dysentery |
| diarrhea 2-6 hours after ingestion of spoiled carbohydrate rich food | staphylococcus |
| abdominal pain and diarrhea 6-9 hours after ingestion of spoiled protein rich food | salmonella poisoning |
| constipation 24 hours after ingestion of canned goods | botulism poisoning |
| orange eyes, myalgia | leptospirosis |
| parotitis | mumps |
| lymphangitis | filariasis |