Trendelenburg position
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Trendelenburg + position, after Friedrich Trendelenburg, the German surgeon who developed the position.
Noun[edit]
- (medicine) A physical position that a patient is placed in by raising the inferior half by 30 degrees, especially useful for superior trauma or pelvic access.
Translations[edit]
physical position that a patient is placed in by raising the inferior half by 30 degrees
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