See Also: rife(dictionary)
rife(dictionary)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Virchow's law(medicine)
Virchow's disease(medicine)
Virchow, Rudolf(medicine)
Virchow's psammoma(medicine)
Virchow's node(medicine)
Virchow's crystals(medicine)
Virchow's corpuscles(medicine)

Virchow's angle (medicine) and rife (oh)


Virchow's angle (medicine)


Virchow's angle


An angle formed by the meeting of a line drawn from the middle of the nasofrontal suture to the base of the anterior nasal spine with a line drawn from this last point to the centre of the external auditory meatus.

Synonym: Virchow-Holder angle.


rife (oh)



[Language: Old English; Origin: ryfe]
[not before noun] if something bad or unpleasant is rife, it is very common
::Violent crime is rife in our inner cities.
rife with sth
full of something bad or unpleasant
::The crowded factories are rife with disease.
run rife
to spread quickly in an uncontrolled way
::No one knew exactly what he had done, but speculation ran rife.