Macewen's sign

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释义与例句

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  1. 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. 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).

来源：wiktionary