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  2. Wilkinson's syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Wilkinson's syndrome (also known as Sclerotic pedicle sign) is a radiographic term which describes a unilaterally enlarged pedicle opposite a contralateral pars defect. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The enlarged pedicle may due to stress hypertrophy, and changes may extend into the adjacent lamina and transverse processes.

  3. List of radiologic signs - Wikipedia

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    Bear paw sign; Beveled edge sign; Bird of prey sign; Bite sign; Black pleura sign; Blade of grass sign (also known as Flame sign) Blumensaat's line; Bohler's angle; Bone-within-a-bone appearance; Boomerang sign; Bow tie appearance; Bowl of grapes sign; Bowler hat sign; Brim sign; Bucket handle tear; Bulging fissure sign; Bunches of grapes sign ...

  4. Owl's eye appearance - Wikipedia

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    Owl's eye appearance, also known as owl's eye sign, is a pattern used in the medical field to describe cells (or cell attributes) that resemble the shape of an actual owl's eye. Using the techniques of histology and radiology , microscopes and other medical imaging are used to locate this pattern of "owl's eye" shaped cells.

  5. Radiologic sign - Wikipedia

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    The dark areas on both sides of the intestines indicate that air is present in both sides. This is called "Rigler's sign". A radiologic sign is an objective indication of some medical fact (that is, a medical sign) that is detected by a physician during radiologic examination with medical imaging [1] (for example, via an X-ray, CT scan, MRI scan, or sonographic scan).

  6. Relief mapping (computer graphics) - Wikipedia

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    In computer graphics, relief mapping is a texture mapping technique first introduced in 2000 [1] used to render the surface details of three-dimensional objects accurately and efficiently. [2] It can produce accurate depictions of self-occlusion, self-shadowing, and parallax. [3] It is a form of short-distance ray tracing done in a pixel shader.

  7. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    Typically, a colon is used for the eyes of a face, unless winking, in which case a semicolon is used. However, an equals sign, a number 8, a capital letter B or a capital letter X are also used to indicate normal eyes, widened eyes, those with glasses or those with crinkled eyes, respectively.

  8. Wink - Wikipedia

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    Gale Henry winking, 1919. A single wink is usually a friendly gesture implying a degree of solidarity or intimacy. A typical use of the wink is to quietly send a message that third parties are not aware of. For example, while person A is lying to person B or deliberately teasing them, they might wink at person C as a means of indicating the fact to C and i

  9. Terry-Thomas sign - Wikipedia

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    In radiology, the Terry-Thomas sign is a scapholunate ligament dissociation on an anteroposterior view of the wrist. [1] [2] Most commonly a result of a fall on the outstretched hand , the scapholunate ligament ruptures resulting in separation of the lunate and scaphoid bones. This burst causes the scaphoid bone to dorsally rotate. [3]