MCBURNEY'S POINT

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 I. (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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