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MCBURNEY'S POINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does McBurney's point mean? 

MCBURNEY'S POINT (noun)
  The noun MCBURNEY'S POINT has 1 sense:

1. a point one third of the way along a line drawn from the hip to the umbilicus; the point of maximum sensitivity in acute appendicitisplay

  Familiarity information: MCBURNEY'S POINT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MCBURNEY'S POINT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A point one third of the way along a line drawn from the hip to the umbilicus; the point of maximum sensitivity in acute appendicitis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("McBurney's point" is a kind of...):

point (the precise location of something; a spatially limited location)


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