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■ noun Medicine a fracture of the radius in the wrist with a characteristic backward displacement of the hand.
Origin
C19: named after the Irish surgeon Abraham Colles .
[ 'kɒlɪs ]
■ noun Medicine a fracture of the radius in the wrist with a characteristic backward displacement of the hand.
Origin
C19: named after the Irish surgeon Abraham Colles .
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004