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Chandelier Sign

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Chandelier Sign
A popular term for pain hypersensitivity in women with PID; the name derives from the fact that internal pelvic examination evokes pain of such intensity that the patient seemingly leaps out of the examination stirrups, reaching ‘for the chandelier’

chandelier sign
Gynecology A popular term for pain hypersensitivity in ♀ with PID; pelvic examination evokes pain of such intensity that the Pt seemingly leaps out of the examination stirrups, reaching 'for the chandelier'. See Pelvic inflammatory disease.


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