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Wartenberg's syndrome

Wartenberg's syndrome noun: a specific mononeuropathy caused by entrapment of the superficial branch of the radial nerve, leading to numbness, tingling, and weakness of the posterior aspect of the thumb.

Noun

Wartenberg's syndrome (uncountable)

  1. A specific mononeuropathy caused by entrapment of the superficial branch of the radial nerve, leading to numbness, tingling, and weakness of the posterior aspect of the thumb.

Synonyms of Wartenberg's syndrome

Questions about Wartenberg's syndrome

What does Wartenberg's syndrome mean?
Wartenberg's syndrome means a specific mononeuropathy caused by entrapment of the superficial branch of the radial nerve, leading to numbness, tingling, and weakness of the posterior aspect of the thumb.
What part of speech is Wartenberg's syndrome?
Wartenberg's syndrome is a noun.

Words near Wartenberg's syndrome in the dictionary

  1. Wartenberg wheel
  2. Wartenberg wheels
  3. Wartenberg's migrant sensory neuritis
  4. Wartenberg's migratory sensory neuropathy
  5. Wartenberg's sign
  6. Wartenberg's syndrome
  7. Warter
  8. wartern
  9. warterns
  10. wartface
  11. wartfaces

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