What is Turner's sign?
A. Contraction of the check on tapping the skin in front of the ear
B. The presence of uremic frost
C. Visible abdominal peristaltic waves.
D. A blue-gray discoloration of the flanks
D
Turner's sign is a gray-blue discoloration of the flanks caused by the leakage of pancreatic en-zymes into the cutaneous tissue.
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