MCBURNEY'S POINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does McBurney's point mean? 

• MCBURNEY'S POINT (noun)
  The noun MCBURNEY'S POINT has 1 sense:

1. a point one third of the way along a line drawn from the hip to the umbilicus; the point of maximum sensitivity in acute appendicitis

  Familiarity information: MCBURNEY'S POINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MCBURNEY'S POINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A point one third of the way along a line drawn from the hip to the umbilicus; the point of maximum sensitivity in acute appendicitis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("McBurney's point" is a kind of...):

point (the precise location of something; a spatially limited location)