English Explanatory Dictionary

Risser sign

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An indirect measure of skeletal maturity, whereby the ossification stage of the iliac apophysis is used to judge the ossification of the spinal vertebrae.

Word forms

Risser sign

Etymology

The correlation was first described by Risser in 1958, with a graded classification scheme developed at a later time.

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