Taber's Medical Dictionary
Carnett sign
(kar″net′)
[John Berton Carnett, 20th-cent. U.S. surgeon]
In evaluating a surgical abdomen, decreased abdominal tenderness to palpation after the supine patient elevates his or her head from the bed. The sign indicates that acute abdominal pain originates in the rectus muscle sheath rather than the peritoneum.
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Carnett Sign." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/730342/all/Carnett_sign.
Carnett sign. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/730342/all/Carnett_sign. Accessed March 25, 2023.
Carnett sign. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/730342/all/Carnett_sign
Carnett Sign [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2023 March 25]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/730342/all/Carnett_sign.
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