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Pott's disease

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Pott's disease [′päts di‚zēz]
(medicine)
Abnormal backward curvature of the spine caused by tuberculous osteitis.


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Pott's disease of the cervical spine presenting as a deep neck infection.
Atypical presentation of cutaneous tuberculosis and a retropharyngeal ... by Makura, Zvoru G.G. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
What Hugo knew of this condition can only be speculated, but as a leading poet, he would unquestionably have been familiar with the life of one of England's greatest poets, Alexander Pope (1688-1744), a hunchback severely deformed in childhood by Pott's disease.
At the deathbed of consumptive art. (Another Dimension) by Morens, David M. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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