Medical Definition of Rectal shelf

1. A shelf palpable by rectal examination, due to metastatic tumour cells gravitating from an abdominal cancer and growing in the rectovesical or rectouterine pouch. Synonym: Blumer's shelf. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rectal Shelf

recrystallizing
recs
recta
recta ratio
rectal
rectal ampulla
rectal anaesthesia
rectal artery
rectal cancer
rectal columns
rectal fistula
rectal folds
rectal plexuses
rectal prolapse
rectal reflex
rectal shelf (current term)
rectal sinuses
rectal valves
rectal valvotomy
rectal varicosities
rectal varicosity
rectal vein
rectal venous plexus
rectalgia
rectally
rectangle
rectangled
rectangles
rectangular
rectangular amputation

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