I'd like to share my list of medical signs, and ask for ideas on how to create the short forms. Does anyone have a particular system that they like for two-word phrases?
For most everything else, I use the "ABAB" system - first two letters of each word. For this list, though, the second word is "sign," so there are too many duplicate short forms, and IT doesn't convert them. The only alternative I can come up with is ABCDABCD, and that doesn't seem ideal either. So I'll just post the list of terms without shorts. Suggestions, anyone?
-sono_io
Aaron sign
Adson's sign
Abadie sign
Abraham sign
Ahlfeld sign
Allis sign
Amoss sign
Andre-Thomas sign
Anghelescu sign
anterior drawer sign
anterior tibial sign
anticus sign
Argyll Robertson pupil sign
Arnoux sign
Archibald sign
Arroyo sign
Auenbrugger sign
Aufrecht sign
Auspitz sign
Baastrup sign
Babinski sign
Baccelli sign
Baillarger sign
Ballance sign
Ballet sign
Bamberger sign
banana sign
Barre pyramidal sign
Battle sign
Bárány sign
Bard sign
Barre sign
Becker sign
Beccaria sign
Beclard sign
Beevor sign
Behier-Hardy sign
Bekhterev sign
Bell sign
Berger sign
Bergman sign
Bespaloff sign
Bethea sign
Bezold sign
Biederman sign
Bieg sign
Bielschowsky sign
Biermer sign
Biernacki sign
Bing sign
Bird sign
Bitot sign
Bjerrum sign
Blatin sign
Blumberg sign
Boas sign
Bolt sign
Bonnet sign
Bordier-Frankel sign
Borsieri sign
Boston sign
Bouillaud sign
bowler hat sign
Boyce sign
Bozzolo sign
Bragard sign
Branham sign
Braun-Fernwald sign
Braunwald sign
Braxton-Hicks sign
Broadbent sign
Brockenbrough sign
Brodie sign
broken straw sign
Brown sign
Brown-Sequard sign
Brudzinski sign
Brunati sign
Brun sign
Bryant sign
Buerger's sign
Burton sign
Cabrera sign
Cantelli sign
Carabelli sign
cardiorespiratory sign
Carman sign
Carman-Kirklin sign
Carnett sign
Carvallo sign
Cegka sign
Chaddock sign
Chadwick sign
Charcot sign
Cheyne-Stokes sign
Chilaiditi sign
Chvostek sign
Chvostek-Weiss sign
Claude hyperkinesis sign
clavicular sign
Cleeman sign
Codman sign
cogwheel sign
coiled spring sign
Cole sign
Collier sign
colon cutoff sign
Comby sign
commemorative sign
Comolli sign
complementary opposition sign
contralateral sign
Coopernail sign
Cope sign
Corrigan sign
cortical rim sign
coughing sign
Courvoisier sign
Cowen sign
crescent sign
Crichton-Browne sign
Crowe sign
Cruveilhier-Baumgarten sign
Cullen sign
Dalrymple sign
D’Amato sign
Danforth sign
Dance sign
Darier sign
Dawbarn sign
Dejerine sign
de la Camp sign
Delbet sign
Delmege sign
Demarquay sign
Demianoff sign
de Musset sign
Dennie sign
Desault sign
d'Espine sign
Dew sign
Dieuaide sign
Dixon Mann sign
doll’s eye sign
Dorendorf sign
double bubble sign
drawer sign
drooping lily sign
Drummond sign
DTP (distal tingling on percussion) sign
Dubois sign
Duchenne sign
Duckworth sign
Dugas sign
Dunphy sign
Dupuytren sign
Duroziez sign
E sign
echo sign
Elliot sign
Ellis sign
Ely sign
Enroth sign
erb sign
Erben sign
Erichsen sign
Escherich sign
Eustace Smith sign
Ewart sign
Ewing sign
external malleolar sign
fabere sign
facial sign
Faget sign
Fajersztajn sign
fan sign
fat pad sign
Federici sign
figure three sign
Filatov sign
Filipowicz sign
Finkelstein sign
flag sign
Flatau sign
floating tooth sign
flush-tank sign
formication sign
Forschheimer sign
Fothergill sign
Fox sign
Frank sign
Frankel sign
Friedrich sign
Froment paper sign
Gaenslen sign
Galeazzi sign
Gauss sign
Gianelli sign
Gifford sign
Gilbert sign
Glasgow sign
Goetz sign
Goggia sign
Golden sign
Goldstein sign
Goldthwait sign
Gonda sign
Goodell sign
Gordon sign
Gorlin sign
Gottron sign
Gowers sign
Graefe sign
Grancher sign
Granger sign
Grasset sign
Grasset-Bychowski sign
Grasset-Gaussel-Hoover sign
Grey Turner sign
Griesinger sign
Griffith sign
Grocco sign
Gubler sign
Guilland sign
Gunn sign
Guyon sign
Hahn sign
Hall sign
halo sign
Hamman sign
Hannington-Kiff sign
harlequin sign
Hatchcock sign
Haudek sign
Hawkins sign
Heberden sign
Hefke-Turner sign
Hegar sign
Heilbronner sign
Heim-Kreysig sign
Helbing sign
Hennebert sign
Henning sign
Higoumenaki sign
Hill sign
Hirschberg sign
Hitzelberger sign
Hochsinger sign
Hoehne sign
Hoffman sign
Holmes sign
Homan sign
Hoover sign
Hope sign
Horn sign
Horner sign
Horsley sign
Howship-Romberg sign
Hoyne sign
Hueter sign
Huntington sign
Hutchinson sign
hyperkinesis sign
interossei sign
Jendrassik sign
jugular sign
Joffroy sign
Jump sign
Kanavel sign
Kantor sign
Karplus sign
Keen sign
Kehr sign
Kellock sign
Kelly sign
Kerandel sign
Kergaradec sign
Kernig sign
Kerr sign
Kestenbaum sign
kienbock sign
Kirmisson sign
Kleist sign
Klemm sign
Klippel-Weil sign
Knies sign
Kocher sign
Koplik sign
Kreysig sign
Krisovski sign
Kussmaul sign
Kustner sign
Lafora sign
Lancisi sign
Langoria sign
Lasegue sign
Laugier sign
leg sign
Leichtenstern sign
lemon sign
Lennhoff sign
Leri sign
Leser-Trelat sign
Levine sign
Lhermitte sign
Lichtheim sign
ligature sign
Linder sign
Litten sign
Livierato sign
Lloyd sign
Lucas sign
Ludloff sign
Lust sign
Lowenberg sign
Macewen sign
Mayne's sign
McBurney sign
McConnell sign
McGinn-White sign
McMurray sign
Magendie sign
Magendie-Hertwig sign
Magnan sign
Mahler sign
Maisonneuve sign
Mann sign
Mannkopf sign
Marcus Gunn pupillary sign
Marfan sign
Marie sign
Marie-Foix sign
Marinesco sign
Mean sign
Meltzer sign
Mendel-Bekhterev sign
meniscus sign
Mennell sign
Mercedes-Benz sign
Mexican hat sign
Minor sign
Mirchamp sign
Möbius sign
Morquio sign
Moschcowitz sign
Mosler sign
moulage sign
Müller sign
Munson sign
Murphy sign
Murphy punch sign
Musset sign
Myerson sign
neck sign
Negro sign
Neri sign
niche sign
Nicoladoni sign
Nikolsky sign
Ober sign
obturator sign
Oliver sign
Oliver-Cardarelli-Olshausen sign
Oppenheim sign
orbicularis sign
Ortolani sign
Osler sign
Palla sign
palmoplantar sign
Parkinson sign
Parrot sign
Pastia sign
patent bronchus sign
Patrick's sign
Pende sign
Perez sign
peroneal sign
Pfuhl sign
Piltz sign
Pins sign
Piotrowski sign
Piskacek sign
Pitres sign
pivot shift sign
placental sign
Plummer sign
Pool-Schlesinger sign
Porter sign
posterior drawer sign
Potain sign
Prehn sign
Prevost sign
pronation sign
pseudo-Babinski sign
pseudo-Graefe sign
psoas sign
puddle sign
pyramid sign
Quant sign
Queckenstedt sign
Quenu-Muret sign
Quincke sign
radialis sign
Radovici sign
Ramond sign
Raynaud sign
Remak sign
reservoir sign
reversed three sign
Revilliod sign
Riesman sign
Rigler sign
rim sign
Robertson sign
Rocher sign
Romana sign
Romberg sign
Rommelaere sign
rope sign
Rosenbach sign
Rossolimo sign
Rotch sign
Roth sign
Rovighi sign
Rovsing sign
Ruggeri sign
Rumpel-Leede sign
Russell sign
Rust sign
Saenger sign
Salus sign
Sansom sign
Saunders sign
Schamroth sign
Schepelmann sign
Schick sign
Schlesinger sign
Schober sign
Schultze sign
Schultze-Chvostek sign
Schwartze sign
scimitar sign
Seguin sign
Seidel sign
setting sun sign
Shibley sign
Siegert sign
Signorelli sign
Silex sign
Simon sign
Sister Mary Joseph sign
Sisto sign
Skoda sign
Smith sign
Snellen sign
Soto-Hall sign
Souques sign
Spalding sign
spinal sign
spine sign
Spurling sign
square root sign
stairs sign
Stellwag sign
Sternberg sign
Stewart-Holmes sign
Stierlin sign
Stransky sign
Strauss sign
string sign
string of beads sign
Strümpell sign
Strunsky sign
Suker sign
Sumner sign
swinging flashlight sign
Tay sign
Theimich lip sign
Thomas sign
Thomson sign
three sign
Throckmorton sign
tibialis sign
Tinel sign
toe sign
Tournay sign
Traube sign
Trendelenburg sign
trepidation sign
Tresilian sign
Trimadeau sign
Troisier sign
Trousseau sign
Turner sign
Turyn sign
twin peak sign
Uhthoff sign
Unschuld sign
Vanzetti sign
vein sign
von Graefe sign
Waddell sign
Wartenberg sign
Warthin sign
Weber sign
Wegner sign
Weill sign
Wenckebach sign
Wernicke sign
Westermark sign
Westphal sign
Westphal-Pilcz sign
Widowitz sign
Wilder sign
Williamson sign
Wilson pronator sign
Wimberger sign
Winterbottom sign
Wood sign