Word.ws English Dictionary

Pratt's symptom

Pratt's symptom noun: the presence of rigidity in the muscles of an injured limb preceding the occurrence of gangrene.

Noun

Pratt's symptom

  1. The presence of rigidity in the muscles of an injured limb preceding the occurrence of gangrene.

Questions about Pratt's symptom

What does Pratt's symptom mean?
Pratt's symptom means the presence of rigidity in the muscles of an injured limb preceding the occurrence of gangrene.
What part of speech is Pratt's symptom?
Pratt's symptom is a noun.

Words near Pratt's symptom in the dictionary

  1. Pratt knot
  2. Pratt knots
  3. Pratt truss
  4. Pratt's Bottom
  5. Pratt's sign
  6. Pratt's symptom
  7. Pratte
  8. pratted about
  9. pratted around
  10. Pratteln
  11. prattery

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Pratt's symptom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Pratt's symptom.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pratt%27s_symptom. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.