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Definition of Boardlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boardlike
Literary usage of Boardlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1922)
"If it be attached posteriorly, or posterolaterally, we may expect to find the
same boardlike hardness and general tenderness but not the area of prominence ..."
2. Transactions of the Luzerne County Medidcal Society by Luzerne County Medical Society (1897)
"His belly was retracted and the abdominal muscles absolutely rigid— boardlike.
Aside from this the examination told me nothing. As the case seemed urgent, ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"... which are not related to joints, such as the inter- costals and the muscles
of the abdomen? These, as pointed out, have an induration that is boardlike. ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1898)
"... which are not related to joints, such as the inter- costals and the muscles
of the abdomen? These, as pointed out, have an induration that is boardlike. ..."
5. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Robert E. Hermann, Avram M. Cooperman (1921)
"Everything negative except abdomen, which was of boardlike rigidity and distended
throughout. Marked tenderness in right upper quadrant just above ..."
6. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"The abdomen was distended, tense, boardlike, tympanitic in front but dull in the
flanks. It was tender throughout. There was a small wound of entrance in ..."
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