Macewen's sign

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A clinical finding in which percussion of the skull near the junction of the frontal, temporal, and parietal bones produces a cracked-pot sound, indicative of separated sutures.
  2. A clinical finding, suggestive of alcoholic coma, in which the pupils are contracted but an external painful stimulation causes dilation followed by slow constriction.
    — […] pupils, dilated in alcohol poisoning and in many other poisons. MacEwen's sign is of great value: if a patient has lain undisturbed for half an hour the pupils will be found contracted; […]

词源

Discovered by surgeon and professor Sir William Macewen (1848–1924).
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary