See Also: Cruveilhier-Baumgarten sign(medicine)
Cruveilhier-Baumgarten disease(medicine)
Cruveilhier-Baumgarten murmur(medicine)
Cruveilhier-Baumgarten syndrome(medicine)
Baumgarten's veins(medicine)
Baumgarten's glands(medicine)
Baumgarten, P Clemons von(medicine)
Cruveilhier's fascia(medicine)
Cruveilhier, Jean(encyclopedia)
Cruveilhier's disease(medicine)

perspicacious (iou) and Cruveilhier-Baumgarten sign (medicine)


perspicacious (iou)



perspicacious adjective. E17.
[from Latin perspicac-, -ax, from perspicere: see PERSPECTIVE noun & verb, -ACIOUS.]
Seeing clearly; keen, sharp. arch. E17.
S. Johnson So thick a mist, that the most perspicacious eye could see but a little way.
Having a clear understanding; perceptive, discerning. M17.
E. Waugh Lord Curzon was more perspicacious..and discerned the great talents.
perspicaciously adverb M18.
perspicaciousness noun E18.

Cruveilhier-Baumgarten sign (medicine)


Cruveilhier-Baumgarten sign
<clinical sign> A murmur over the umbilicus often in the presence of caput medusae, resulting from portal hypertension, usually with hepatic cirrhosis; recanalization of the umbilical vein with reverse blood flow from the liver into the abdominal wall veins creates the murmur.