| obtundation |
A dulled or reduced level of alertness or consciousness.
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| obstruction |
Blockage of a passageway.
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| obturator sign |
1. hypogastric or adductor pain elicited by passive internal rotation of the flexed thigh, due to contact between an inflammatory process and the internal obturator muscle; a sign of appendicitis. 2. Hefke-Turner s.
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| obstetric |
the shortest anteroposterior diameter of the pelvic inlet; the distance from a point 1 cm. below the top of the pubis to the tip of the sacral promontory, measuring 11 to 13 cm. in the normal pelvis. So called because it is intimately concerned in the process of labor. Called also obstetric conjugate and conjugata vera obstetrica.
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| objective sign |
one that can be seen, heard, or felt by the diagnostician; called also physical s.
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