mcburney's point

1. 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

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Questions about mcburney's point

What does mcburney's point mean?

mcburney's point means "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".

Is mcburney's point a common word?

mcburney's point is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.