SCALENUS SYNDROME

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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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)

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