Taber's Medical Dictionary
Ballance sign
(bal′ăns)
[C.A. Ballance, Brit. surgeon, 1856-1936]
The presence of persistent dullness to percussion in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen, with shifting dullness in the right flank, in a patient with splenic injury.
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Ballance Sign." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/740492/0/Ballance_sign.
Ballance sign. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/740492/0/Ballance_sign. Accessed April 4, 2025.
Ballance sign. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/740492/0/Ballance_sign
Ballance Sign [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2025 April 04]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/740492/0/Ballance_sign.
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