Aaron's sign

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McBurney's point

Aaron's sign is a referred pain felt in the epigastrium upon continuous firm pressure over McBurney's point. It is indicative of appendicitis.

Aaron's sign is named for Charles Dettie Aaron, an American gastroenterologist.

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Who Named It?

Eponymous medical signs for digestive system and abdomen

Digestive system

GI tract	Goodsall's rule · Chilaiditi syndrome · intussusception: Dance's sign appendicitis: Aaron's sign/McBurney's point · Rovsing's sign · Markle sign · Rosenstein's sign Hampton's line

Accessory	liver: Councilman body · Mallory body biliary: Boas' sign · Courvoisier's law · Charcot's cholangitis triad/Reynolds' pentad · cholecystitis (Murphy's sign · Lépine's sign) · Nardi test

Peritoneum	Blumberg sign · Rigler's sign

Hernia	Howship-Romberg sign · Hannington-Kiff sign

Other	Fothergill's sign · Carnett's sign

Abdominal · general

spleen/LUQ: Ballance's sign · Traube's sign · Castell's sign

hemorrhage: Cullen's sign · Grey Turner's sign

anat(t, g, p)/phys/devp/enzy

noco/cong/tumr, sysi/epon

proc, drug(A2A/2B/3/4/5/6/7/14/16), blte

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