Throckmorton sign
n.— «Throckmorton sign: positive if angle of the dangle is > 0 ° pointing toward the lesion (male patients only)…If the angle of the dangle > 90 ° use extreme caution.» —by Scott Nelson, Montri Wongworawat Tolerances: An Orthopaedic Reference Manual Nov. 1, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
It was a dark and stormy night. So begins the long and increasingly convoluted prose of Edwards Bulwer-Lytton’s best-known novel. Today the annual Bulwer-Lytton Contest asks contestants for fanciful first sentences that are similarly...
After hearing our conversation about how dictionaries decide on a preferred pronunciation, and specifically about how to pronounce aioli, Vern from San Diego, California, wrote to say that a friend once made fun of him for pronouncing grimace with a...