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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Partial destruction of the vertebral bones, usually caused by a tuberculous infection and often producing curvature of the spine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Med.) Caries of the vertebræ, frequently resulting in curvature of the spine and paralysis of the lower extremities; -- so named from Percival
Pott , an English surgeon. - a fracture of the lower end of the fibula, with displacement of the tibia.
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- noun A presentation of
extrapulmonary tuberculosis that affects thespine , a kind of tuberculousarthritis of theintervertebral joints .
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- noun TB of the spine with destruction of vertebrae resulting in curvature of the spine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Percival Pott, (1714–1788), British surgeon.]
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After Percivall Pott (1714–1788), a London surgeon who trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
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