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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:
Hypernyms ("McBurney's point" is a kind of...):
point (the precise location of something; a spatially limited location)