Möbius sign

System: Hormone & Metabolic Signs · All hormone & metabolic signs

What it is — and how it is elicited

When a target is brought close to the nose, one or both eyes fail to keep turning inward (weakness of convergence).

What a positive finding suggests

Associated with thyroid eye disease (Graves' ophthalmopathy).

◈ Behind the name

Paul Julius Möbius (1853–1907), German neurologist and psychiatrist.

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