Pratt's sign

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Pratt's sign is an indication of lower leg deep vein thrombosis. It manifests as pain evident when squeezing the calf muscle.

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Eponymous medical signs for circulatory system

Heart murmur	Systolic heart murmur: benign paediatric heart murmur (Still's murmur) Diastolic heart murmur: pulmonic regurgitation (Graham Steell murmur) · aortic insufficiency (Austin Flint murmur)
Aortic insufficiency	Watson's water hammer pulse/Corrigan pulse · De Musset's sign · Duroziez's sign · Müller's sign · Quincke's sign · Austin Flint murmur · Mayne's sign
Other endocardium	endocarditis: Roth's spot · Janeway lesion/Osler's node · Bracht-Wachter bodies
Pericardium	cardiac tamponade/pericardial effusion: Beck's triad · Ewart's sign
Other	rheumatic fever: Anitschkow cell · Aschoff body EKG (Osborn wave) angina pectoris (Levine's sign)

Vascular disease

Arterial	aortic aneurysm (Cardarelli's sign, Oliver's sign) · pulmonary embolism (McConnell's sign) · radial artery sufficiency (Allen's test) · pseudohypertension (Osler's sign) · thrombus (Lines of Zahn) Adson's sign · arteriovenous fistula (Nicoladoni sign)
Venous	Friedreich's sign · Caput medusae · Kussmaul's sign · DVT (Pratt's sign, Lisker's sign) · Trendelenburg's test · superior vena cava syndrome (Pemberton's sign)

noco/cong/tumr, sysi/epon

proc, drug (C1A/1B/1C/1D)

anat(a:h,u,t,a,l,v:h,u,t,a,l)/phys/devp

noco/syva/cong/tumr, sysi/epon

proc, drug(C3,C4,C5,C9)

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