Doctors have always been animal lovers. Since ages they found resemblence in normal parts and abnormal lesions of human beings with various animals. Few examples are collected here. May be, after reading them you would like to improve them, or if you have a black Dog you can call him melanoma(Malignant Melanoma if it is ferocious looking) or if you own a Cat why not call it fibroma instead of kitty.
1. Alligator skin in pellagra.
2. Bag of worms feeling in varicocele.
3. Bat ear or protruding ears.
4. Breast mouse-fibroadenoma.
5. Buffalo hump in cushing syndrome.
6. Bull’s neck in diphtheria.
7. Butterfly rash on face in SLE.
8. Cancer (Crab)-Malignant neoplasm.
9. Caput Medusae (Head of snakes) in cirrhosis.
10. Carp ( a pond fish) mouth in tetanus.
11. Catter pillar cells in Aschoff nodule in rheumatic heart disease.
12. Claw hand in ulnar paralysis.
13. Cor bovinum in syphilitic heart disease.
14. Cri du chat syndrome- cat like crying.
15. Crocodile, tears in facial nerve paralysis.
16. Duckbill vaginal speculum.
17. Duck gait in congenital dislocation of hip.
18. Elephantiasis in filariasis.
19. Fish mouth appearance of stenosed mitral valves.
20. Fish mouth in cushing syndrome.
21. Flea bitten kidney in bacterial endocarditis.
22. Goose pimples on exposure to cold.
23. Hare lip(cleft lip).
24. Horse shoe kidney.
25. Ivory exostosis (osteoma).
26. Leoninefacies in leprosy.
27. Lupus (wolf) vulgaris.
28. Mousy breath odour (Fetor hepaticus).
29. Owl eyed nucleoli in Reed Sternberg cells.
30. Pigeon chest deformity.
31. Puff-adder head appearance of ureterocele on IVP.
32. Ranula (small frog) cystic swelling in the floor of mouth.
33. Rat tail appearance of carcinoma esophagus on bariun swallow.
34. Rodent ulcer-Basal cell carcinoma.
35. Salmon patch-Haemangioma.
36. Sea anemone appearance of villous adenoma of urinary bladder.
37. Seagull sign x-rays of mixed gall stones.
38. Snail track ulcers in secondary syphilis.
39. Spider cells- astrocytes.
40. Spider fingers in Marfan’s syndrome.
41. Spider leg appearance of polycystic kidney on IVP.
42. Spider nevi in cirrhosis.
43. Stork bites(capillary haemangiomas).
44. Tabby cat ajpearance of heart with fatty change.
45. Tadpole cells in cytology of carcinoma cervix.
46. Talipes equinus - Clubfoot with planter flexion.
47. Vermiform appendix (worm like).