Pins sign
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Ew·art sign
(yū'ărt),in large pericardial effusions, an area of dullness with bronchial breathing and bronchophony below the angle of the left scapula.
Synonym(s): Pins sign
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Ew·art sign
(yu'ărt sīn)In large pericardial effusions, an area of dullness with bronchial breathing and bronchophony below the angle of the left scapula.
Synonym(s): Pins sign.
Synonym(s): Pins sign.
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Pins sign
(pins, pinz) [Emil Pins, Aust. physician, 1845–1913]
In pericarditis, disappearance of symptoms of pleurisy when the patient assumes knee-chest position.
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Pins,
Emil, Austrian physician, 1845-1913.Pins sign - Synonym(s): Ewart sign
Pins syndrome - dullness, diminution of fremitus and of the vesicular murmur, and a slight distant blowing sound heard in the posteroinferior region of the left chest in cases of pericardial effusion.
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