English Explanatory Dictionary

Kienbock's disease

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Kienbock's disease Kienböck’s disease

Etymology

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

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