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hoya (iou) and Kernig's sign (iou)


hoya (iou)



hoya noun. M19.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Thomas Hoy, English gardener (d. 1821): see -A1.]
Any of various chiefly climbing or twining plants of the genus Hoya (family Asclepiadaceae), natives of the Far East, bearing dense umbels of fleshy or waxy pink, white, or yellow flowers. Also called wax flower, wax plant.

Kernig's sign (iou)



Kernig's sign noun phr. E20.
[V. M. Kernig (1840-1917), Russian physician.]
Medicine. Resistance to straightening of the leg at the knee in a patient lying supine with the hips fully flexed, an indication of meningitis.