Etymology

Macewen's sign

Today it means: A clinical finding in which percussion of the skull near the junction of the frontal, temporal, and parietal bones produces a cracked-pot sound, indicative of separated sutures. Full definition →

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The story

Discovered by surgeon and professor Sir William Macewen (1848–1924).

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