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sentinel spinous process fracture(medicine)
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lurgy (iou) and spinous process (medicine)


lurgy (iou)



lurgy noun. joc. M20.
[Origin unkn.]
A (non-existent) highly infectious disease frequently referred to in the Radio comedy series the Goon Show (see GOON noun 5); an unspecified minor illness. Chiefly in the dreaded lurgy.
H. MacInnes I had caught the dreaded swamp lurgy.

spinous process (medicine)


spinous process


The dorsal projection from the centre of a vertebral arch.

Synonym: sphenoidal spine.