Food Sign in Medicine

I guess not many (with exception of those working in medical field) realise there are several signs or diseases with food related name in medicine . There are certain pathological conditions which resemble various types of food, hence that is how the name arise.

Conditions which resemble :
1) meat dishes -
*sausage finger,
*hamburger sign,
*anchovy pus,
*egg shell calcification.

2) fruits -
*berry aneurysm,
*apple core lesion,
*nutmeg liver,
*strawberry naevi,
*pear shaped bladder,
*banana sign,
*lemon sign.

3) vegetable -
*hyperplastic onion skin,
*cauliflower ear,
*celery stalk metaphysis.

4) drinks -
*port wine stain or hemangioma.

5) dessert, cake, bread etc -
*chocolate cyst,
*honeycomb lung,
*swiss cheese endometrium,
* bread and butter pericarditis,
*donut sign,
*omental cake,
*popcorn calcification,
*rice grain calcification,
*cottage loaf sign,
*pancake vertebra,
*licked candy stick appearance.

6) condiments, cutlery etc -
*coffee bean sign,
*dinner fork deformity,
*champagne bottle deformity,
*salt & pepper calvaria,
*champagne glass pelvis.

And the list continues.... Hope you enjoyed the Buffet of Food Signs and I hope nobody is salivating... Google if you are interested to know more about the sign or the associated disease... I am lazy to write the details here, and furthermore, the details are hypnotizing...

Btw, there is one medical condition by the name McDonald sign - whereby the uterine corpus and the cervix can be be easily flexed on each other due to softening of the uterus at the junction between the cervix and the fundus during the first trimester of pregnancy.

My buffet of food for the night : McDonald Sign McDonald fastfood !!

French Fries

Coke

Spicy Beef Foldover

Ahmay said I should get some real food for dinner instead of McD.. Never mind lah, I only take fastfood once in a blue moon.. The last time I visited McD is few months back liao ;)