See Also: Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Heberden's angina(medicine)
Heberden's nodes(medicine)
Heberden's nodosities(medicine)
Heberden, William(medicine)
Heberden's nodes(health)
Disease, Heberden(health)
Heberden's node(dictionary)
asker(1)(dictionary)
Asker(medicine)

Heberden's nodosities (medicine) and Asker (medicine)


Heberden's nodosities (medicine)


Heberden's nodosities -->
Heberden's nodes
Exostoses about the size of a pea or smaller, found on the terminal phalanges of the fingers in osteoarthritis, which are enlargements of the tubercles at the articular extremities of the distal phalanges.

Synonym: Heberden's nodosities, Rosenbach's disease, tuberculum arthriticum.


Asker (medicine)


asker
<zoology> An ask; a water newt.

Origin: A corruption of AS. Aexe lizard, newt.

Source: Websters Dictionary