Aunt Minnie

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A distinctive radiographic finding that is virtually pathognomonic.
    — The following abdominal radiographic Aunt Minnies (Figs. 3.3 to 3.9) are commonly encountered. File them away in your visual-cerebral computer, and your ability to recognize them will make you a star in the eyes of your colleagues[…]

词形变化

Aunt Minnies plural

词源

Said to have been coined in the 1940s by Dr. Ben Felson, a radiologist at the University of Cincinnati, suggesting something as immediately recognisable as one's own relatives.
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