Winterbottom's sign

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From descriptions made by Dr. Thomas Masterman Winterbottom (1766-1859) in 1803.

Proper noun[edit]

Winterbottom's sign

  1. A swelling of lymph nodes along the back of the neck, characteristic of the early phase of African trypanosomiasis, and suggestive of cerebral infection.
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