SCALENUS SYNDROME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scalenus syndrome mean? 

• SCALENUS SYNDROME (noun)
  The noun SCALENUS SYNDROME has 1 sense:

1. discomfort and vascular symptoms and loss of sensation in a shoulder and arm; caused by a scalene muscle compressing the subclavian artery and part of the brachial plexus

  Familiarity information: SCALENUS SYNDROME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCALENUS SYNDROME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Discomfort and vascular symptoms and loss of sensation in a shoulder and arm; caused by a scalene muscle compressing the subclavian artery and part of the brachial plexus

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("scalenus syndrome" is a kind of...):

syndrome (a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease)