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kienbock's disease

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
kien-bock-'s dis-ease
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A painful disease of the wrist that results from loss of circulation to the lunate bone.

Uncountable

Etymology

Named after Dr. Robert Kienböck, a radiologist in Vienna who discovered it in 1910.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Kienböck’s disease (alternative)

Questions

What does kienbock's disease mean?
A painful disease of the wrist that results from loss of circulation to the lunate bone.
Where does kienbock's disease come from?
Named after Dr. Robert Kienböck, a radiologist in Vienna who discovered it in 1910.

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