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SCALENUS SYNDROME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("scalenus syndrome" is a kind of...):
syndrome (a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease)