Faget sign

English

Etymology

Named after the American physician Jean Charles Faget, who studied yellow fever in Louisiana.

Noun

Faget sign

  1. (medicine) The unusual pairing of fever with bradycardia, seen in certain conditions such as yellow fever and typhoid fever.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.