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Trendelenburg Med.|trɛnˈdɛlənbɜːg|
Also (erron.) -berg.
The name of Friedrich Trendelenburg (1844–1924), German surgeon, used in the possessive and attrib. to designate certain phenomena observed and medical procedures invented by him, as Trendelenburg('s) position, an operating position in which the patient lies supine on a tilted table or bed with the pelvis higher than the head; Trendelenburg('s) test, (a) a test for disorders of the hip joint or gluteus muscles in which the patient stands on one leg and raises the other, a dropping of the pelvis on the unsupported side being a positive sign (Trendelenburg's sign); (b) a test for varicose veins in which the leg is raised to drain it of blood and then quickly lowered, immediate and rapid distention of the leg veins indicating valve incompetence.
1892Keen & White Amer. Text-bk. Surg. II. iii. viii. 948 The further manipulations within the pelvis will be much facilitated by the elevation of the pelvis.., the position being known as Trendelenburg's position. 1907Practitioner Aug. 288 The abdomen is opened with patient in the extreme Trendelenburg position. 1912A. H. Tubby Deformities (ed. 2) I. iii. ix. 586 Trendelenburg's sign is this: If the patient stands on the affected limb and flexes the hip of the second side..the pelvis slips downwards on the sound side. 1923Jones & Lovett Orthopedic Surg. xxvii. 556 The so-called Trendelenburg sign..is very characteristic and explains a good deal of the curious gait. 1930H. Bailey Demonstrations of Physical Signs in Clin. Surg. (ed. 2) xxi. 214 Trendelenburg's test is not diagnostic of congenital hip disease. 1967G. M. Wyburn et al. Conc. Anat. vi. 170/2 With paralysis of gluteus medius or minimus the pelvis drops on the unsupported side when standing on the affected limb (Trendelenberg's sign). 1974J. D. Maynard in R. M. Kirk et al. Surgery xi. 239 Trendelenburg test... Confirmation of retrograde flow in the superficial veins is carried out. 1975Year Bk. Ear, Nose & Throat 116 The patient is placed in the 8-degree reversed Trendelenburg position. |