English Explanatory Dictionary

Aunt Minnie

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A distinctive radiographic finding that is virtually pathognomonic.

Word forms

Aunt Minnie Aunt Minnies

Etymology

Said to have been coined in the 1940s by Dr. Ben Felson, a radiologist at the University of Cincinnati, suggesting something as immediately recognisable as one's own relatives.

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