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unusual facts about Murphy's sign


Murphy's sign

The sign is named after American physician John Benjamin Murphy (1857–1916), a prominent Chicago surgeon from the 1880s through the early 1900s, who first described the hypersensitivity to deep palpation in the subcostal area when a patient with gallbladder disease takes a deep breath.


Alan Murphy

Murphy was a session man who worked with many artists, including Nick Heyward, Long John Baldry, Joan Armatrading, Mike + the Mechanics, Amii Stewart, Andrew Caine, Eikichi Yazawa, Scritti Politti, So and Miquel Brown.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Her father, Denis Brownell Murphy (died 1842), was a miniature and enamel painter.

Arthur William Murphy

Murphy led the investigation into the Canberra air disaster of August 1940, and the Brocklesby mid-air collision that occurred the following month.

Ballyvourney

The top 15 surnames (after aggregating for common misspellings) recorded, from greatest to least, are: Lynch, Keleher, Twomey, Healy, Lucey, Quill, Leehane, Murphy, Riordan, Sweeny, Herlihy, Buckley, McCarthy, Creedon, Dinneen.

Beevor's sign

The sign is named after Charles Edward Beevor, an English neurologist (1854–1908) who first described it.

Bikelahoma

2008 was the birth of Bikelahoma in this format, featuring Jackyl, Kentucky Headhunters, Crooked X, Bang Tango, Dirty Penny, Murphy's Lawmen, and many others events alongside the rally.

Cannon for Cordoba

The results of films of other companies - for instance Mackenna's Gold, Murphy's War, The Last Valley - as well as our own - Play Dirty, The Bridge at Remagen - indicated a need for substantial downward revisions in assessing proper budget costs for pictures in this category - even with the so-called big name action stars.

Christopher Augustine Reynolds

The principal consecrator was Archbishop John Bede Polding of Sydney, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop Daniel Murphy of Hobart, Bishop Matthew Quinn of Bathurst, and Bishop James Murray of Maitland.

Colm Murphy

He questioned evidence surrounding emails from US undercover agent David Rupert while overturning the judgment on Murphy.

Cromwell, Oklahoma

On Halloween night, 1924, Cromwell Town Marshal and legendary Old West lawman Bill Tilghman was shot outside of a cafe called "Ma Murphy's", by a corrupt prohibition agent named Wiley Lynn.

Distant Relative

The band continued to play for many years at the jazz club now known as Nathan P. Murphy's, opening for numerous jazz artists such as Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich and Barney Kessel, who shared the stage with the band.

Doc Scurlock

After they closed the cheese factory in the spring of 1876, Scurlock and his best friend, Bowdre, returned to Lincoln County, New Mexico, where they bought a ranch on public domain land on the Rio Ruidoso from L. G. Murphy on credit, which made them victims of the L. G. Murphy & Co.

Erin Murphy

In 2008, Murphy appeared as celebrity judge on Danny Bonaduce's I Know My Kid's a Star reality show contest for young actors and with Bob Saget on 1 vs. 100.

George Otto Noville

The Noville Peninsula ( 71°56′S 98°35′W), a high ice-covered peninsula about 30 nautical miles (60 km) long, between Peale and Murphy Inlets on the north side of Thurston Island was named for Noville.

Greg Murphy

Greg Murphy joined Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond presenting Top Gear Live, when it had its first international Live show at ASB Showgrounds in Auckland from 12–15 February 2009, and again when the show returned in 2010 with James May replacing Hammond.

Hollywood Shuffle

That night, he has a nightmare in which the director (Eugene Robert Glazer), writer (Dom Irrera), and casting director (Lisa Mende) hound him to be Eddie Murphy.

James Vincent Murphy

(transl.) Erwin Schrödinger, Science and the human temperament, 1935, Allen & Unwin, (biographical introduction by James Murphy, foreword by Ernest Rutherford)

John M. Murphy

John Michael Murphy (born August 3, 1926) is a former Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.

Kempinski Hotel Airport Munich

The architect of the hotel is German-born Helmut Jahn of the Chicago based Murphy/Jahn Architectural Group.

Martin Coleman

Cork were never really troubled over the course of the seventy minutes and a Jimmy Barry-Murphy goal helped the team to a 1-15 to 2-8 victory over their age-old rivals.

McCafferty

Mrs. McCaffery sent him to England to stay with a friend, Mrs. Murphy of Mossley near Manchester, where, at the age of 12, he started work in the mill.

Melbourne String Ensemble

Fintan Murphy – senior lecturer and co-ordinator of strings at the Monash University School of Music, Chair of the AMEB Specialist Examining Panel for Strings, violin teacher at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School.

Missa Latina

March 3, 2007, Casals Festival, San Juan, Puerto Rico: Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, San Juan Philharmonic Chorale; Andreas Delfs, conductor; Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano; Nathaniel Webster, baritone.

Mossy Murphy

With Kilkenny, Murphy won All-Ireland and Leinster titles in 1972.

Mumoli's sign

The image was named after Nicola Mumoli of the Department of Internal Medicine, Livorno Hospital, Livorno, Italy.

Murlan J. Murphy

Chief among the companies was Murphy-Phoenix Company, makers of Murphy Oil Soap, which was later sold to Colgate-Palmolive.

Murphy drip

A curious anecdote involving the Murphy drip is related by Walter Lord in his book on the Battle of Midway.

Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group LLC

After New Jersey radio station WKXW 101.5 copied onto its website a magazine picture of two of the station’s talk show hosts, Craig Carton and Ray Rossi, the photographer of the picture, Peter Murphy, brought a suit against station owner Millennium Radio Group, as well as Carton and Rossi.

Murphy's Romance

Sally Field and director Martin Ritt had to fight Columbia Pictures in order to cast Garner, who was viewed at that point as primarily a television actor despite having enjoyed a flourishing film career in the 1960s (and more recently having co-starred in the box office hit Victor/Victoria opposite Julie Andrews two years earlier).

But because of the success of Norma Rae (1979), with the same star (Field), director, and screenplay writing team (Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch), and with Field's new production company (Fogwood Films) producing, Columbia agreed.

Nad Navillus

Collaborators have included Rob Sullivan (bass), Andy Sullivan (vocals), Suzanne Roberts (violin, viola), Rob Bochnik (guitar), Dylan Posa (guitar), Dudley Colley (guitar), Joss Moorkens (drums, accordion, musical saw), Bill Murphy (drums), Jim Grabowski (keyboards), Dan Sylvester (drums, percussion), Justus Roe (programmed drums), and Keith Hanlon (drums).

Nathan Murphy

Oakes Murphy, Nathan Oakes Murphy (1849-1908), fourteenth Governor of Arizona Territory

New Jersey Association for Infant Mental Health

Some of the original group were the late Thea Bry, Gerard Costa, Susan Adubato, Elaine Herzog, and Nancy Murphy, all of whom were involved with parent education and treatment of infant and family mental health problems www.njaimh.org.

Olivier Robert-Murphy

Olivier Robert-Murphy is Global head of New Business at Universal Music Group.

Passive-aggressive behavior

Murphy and Oberlin also see passive aggression as part of a larger umbrella of hidden anger stemming from ten traits of the angry child or adult.

Pat Dolan

Dolan had finished building a strong team at Cork, following the good work first laid out by Dave Barry and then Liam Murphy, and the club went on to win the league title in 2005 under new manager Damien Richardson, with the notable addition of Roy O'Donovan.

Robert Cushman Murphy

The author of over 600 scientific articles, he also wrote such books as Logbook for Grace: Whaling Brig Daisy, 1912-1913 and Oceanic Birds of South America. In 1951, Murphy led the expedition that rediscovered the Bermuda Petrel, or cahow, a bird believed to have been extinct for 330 years.

Rohan Murphy

Murphy has been featured on media such as ABC news, Sports Illustrated, 20/20, and Nike's “No Excuses” campaign.

Rosemary Murphy

The following year, Murphy appeared in the television film A Case of Rape, playing a ruthless defense attorney who brutally cross-examines rape victim Ellen Harrod (Elizabeth Montgomery) and wins an acquittal for the man who attacked her.

Scannebago

To travel the state of North Carolina, "from Murphy to Manteo," takes 9 hours, and North Carolina's terrain varies greatly from the mountains to the sea.

Simon Murphy

Simon J. Murphy, Jr. (1851–1926), mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin, son of Simon J. Murphy, Sr.

Spider Murphy Gang

"Spider Murphy" is also referred to in a song written by Larry Kirwan of the Irish fusion Band Black 47's song, "Forty Deuce." The song appears referential to both the Spider Murphy Gang and to "Jailhouse Rock", for the live version from 2006's "Bittersweet 16" includes a saxophone solo which the singer recalls having heard in Sing Sing prison.

Steve Lonegan

Lonegan ran for the Republican nomination for governor in the state's 2005 elections and finished fourth with 8.08% of the vote after the nominee, businessman Doug Forrester, former Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler and Morris County Freeholder John Murphy.

Strümpell

Strümpell's sign, clinical sign in which the patient's attempt to flex the knee against resistance elicits an extensor plantar reflex

The Boogie Kings

The band formulated in Eunice, Louisiana in 1955 as teenagers first consisting members Doug Ardoin, Skip Morris, Bert Miller, Byron Launey, Norris Badeaux, Bryan Leger, Murphy Buford and Harris Miller.

The Shanghai Drama

Christl Mardayn as Kay Murphy, cabaret singer (as Christiane Mardayne)

Tommy Joe Gilmore

The Galway centre half was honoured with All-Star awards in 1972 and ’73 appearing on All-Star teams in the esteemed company of the likes of Sean O'Neill, Kevin Kilmurray, Brain McEniff, Mick O'Connell and Jimmy Barry Murphy to name but a few.

Workaholics

Bradley Murphy (Edward Barbanell) is Alice's foul-mouthed older brother who has Downs Syndrome.

Zdeněk Bažant

Zdeněk Pavel Bažant (born December 10, 1937) is McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University's Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.


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