pathognomic

CAC scores are calcium scores on EBT/CT scan calcium is pathognomic for plaque.

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No finding, however, is pathognomic, and some are conflicting.

The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

-- While in many cases of pelvic fracture lameness or abnormal decumbency are the salient manifestations, yet the pathognomic symptoms are crepitation or palpable evidence which may be obtained by rectal or vaginal examination.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

In such instances, even pathognomic symptoms may be masked to the extent that little, if any, sign of pain or malaise is evinced.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

This is followed by the description of a case which he says contains the symptoms typical of the psychosis but in which no pathognomic abnormality is mentioned except negativism -- a vague term whose meaning varies with the observer.

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

Constant tremulous agitation of the inferior palpebral and great zygomatic muscles is pathognomic of the earlier stages of general paralysis.

The expression of the emotions in man and animals 1898

In its application to man, the law is simply this, that all organs of the brain act in accordance with their position, -- in accordance with their _pathognomic line_, or line of action, which is the line of their central fibres, the tendency of which is toward the surface of the brain, where they reach the interior of the cranium.

Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 1856

The simplicity and applicability of these pathognomic laws which pervade all psychic phenomena are such that they are easily mastered, and a single evening devoted to the subject enables my students to locate with approximate correctness nearly all the organs of the brain.

Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 1856

There are four classes of pathognomic lines, as there are four aspects of the brain, which may be represented on a plane surface, and which are sufficient for this incomplete introductory statement -- the anterior and posterior -- the superior or upward, and the inferior or downward.

Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 1856

When we establish the pathognomic line, we establish a perfect criterion of the organic action, for the action is always in accordance with the line; and this fundamental law gives a key to all psychology, and gives it a geometrical simplicity.

Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 1856