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Alexandrov symptom

Alexandrov a symptom (the domestic surgeon L. P. Alexandrov, 1857-1929) – one of precursory diagnostic characters of tubercular arthritis which is characterized by a thickening and a slow raspravleniye of the skin fold taken by fingers in a joint.

 
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