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McBurney's Point

Definition: McBurney's Point

McBurney's Point

Noun

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 appendicitis.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: McBurney's Point

Synonym by domain: burney (medicine).

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Anagrams: McBurney's Point

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-b-c-e-i-m-n-n-o-p-r-s-t-u-y"

-4 letters: encryptions.

-5 letters: centurions, continuers, counterspy, countrymen, encryption, importunes, incumbents, procumbent, proscenium, puromycins, resumption, subpotency, subreption, supertonic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: McBurney's Point


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 63 42 75 72 6E 65 79 27 73      50 6F 69 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100011 01000010 01110101 01110010 01101110 01100101 01111001 00100111 01110011 00100000 01010000 01101111 01101001 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#99 &#66 &#117 &#114 &#110 &#101 &#121 &#39 &#115 &#32 &#80 &#111 &#105 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0063 0042 0075 0072 006E 0065 0079 0027 0073      0050 006F 0069 006E 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

476936878480719198525081758086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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