Category: T

The anatomical snuff box is a depression on the back of the hand near the base of the thumb, most noticeable when the thumb is extended backward. The scaphoid bone lies under this depression, and when it’s fractured, applying pressure to this area induces pain.  

Tobacco addiction.  

Dark stools composed of digested blood resulting from internal bleeding within the intestinal tract. It’s important to distinguish these from the gray stools caused by bismuth medications and the gray-black stools that may occur after taking iron supplements.  

A state where the patient lies listlessly in bed, exhibiting signs like a dry, brown tongue, debris on the teeth, a quick but weak pulse, inability to control bowel and bladder functions, and quick deterioration. This condition is observed in typhoid and some other persistent fevers.  

The rubbing noise observed in instances of dry pericarditis and dry pleurisy.  

A localized skin inflammation after injecting a small amount of tuberculin, signifying that the body has previously been exposed to tubercle bacilli.  

Malaria with three overlapping fever cycles that don’t occur simultaneously, generally leading to daily fever episodes.  

A pulse with a pause following every third beat.  

A pulse in which the typically three waves are unusually well-defined.  

Peritonitis caused by the tuberculosis bacteria.