See Also: endometrial smear(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Sudeck(medicine)
Sudeck's Atrophy(health)
Sudeck's syndrome(medicine)
Sudeck's atrophy(medicine)
Sudeck's critical point(medicine)
Endometrial(medicine)
endometrial implants(medicine)
biopsy, endometrial(medicine)

Sudeck's atrophy (medicine) and endometrial smear (medicine)


Sudeck's atrophy (medicine)


Sudeck's atrophy
Atrophy of bones, commonly of the carpal or tarsal bones, following a slight injury such as a sprain.

See: causalgia, reflex sympathetic dystrophy.

Synonym: acute reflex bone atrophy, posttraumatic osteoporosis, Sudeck's syndrome.

Origin: L. English sweat


endometrial smear (medicine)


endometrial smear


A group of cytologic smear's containing material obtained directly from the endometrium by aspiration, lavage, or brushing of the uterine cavity.