Interesting Medical Eponyms

I have mentioned about McDonald Sign recently...

There are several interesting signs or syndromes in Medicine or Medical Eponyms, such as..

Angel's Sign (Angel, syiok boh? Your sign woh.. but what issit about??)
Basically, it refers to performing otoscopic examination while the patient blows against a pinched nose. This increases sensitivity of otoscopy for detection of perforated tympanic membrane by demonstrating fluid or pus in external auditory canal.

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome - sounds very comical, huh? Apa tu?
It means disturbance of one's view of onself with disruption of the sense of passage of time - basically means distorted space, time and body image. There is another different syndrome called Chesire Cat syndrome.

PSAS (Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome) - This sydrome always reminds me of "someone", who always has orgasms, hahahha... u know who u are, right? ;)
PSAS results in a spontaneous and persistent genital arousal, with or without orgasm or genital engorgement, unrelated to any feelings of sexual desire. In particular, it is not related to hypersexuality. I read about an article regarding a patient who suffers up to 300 orgasms a day.

Marfan syndrome = sounds like ma fan/麻烦 (troublesome) to me.
This one is an inherited connective tissue disorder, and the one suffering from this disorder has arachnodactyly (long fingers) with armspan more than height, high arched palate and association with Aortic Incompetence, lens dislocation, etc etc etc.

Munchausen's syndrome = ini orang tak ada sakit, cari sakit pulak !! Ini dunia semua pun ada...
A factitious disorder or mental illness whereby a person repeatedly acts as if he or she has a physical or mental disorder. The patient feigns, exaggerates, or creates symptoms of illnesses in himself/herself to gain investigation, treatment, surgery, attention, sympathy and comfort from medical personnel.

Baker's cyst = reminds me of our baker's (ahmay) in the house :) Bila your next baking session?
also known as popliteal cyst; a collection of fluid resulting in swelling at the back of the knee joint, at the popliteal area.

Buerger's disease = sounds like Burger to me ...
The other medical terminology for this disease is endarteritis obliterans - inflammation of arteries, veins and nerves with thrombosis in middle sized arteries which might leads to gangrene, found in male smokers.

And the list continues, but yours truly lazy to type liao, cos sleepy liao ............