Risser sign

English

Etymology

The correlation was first described by Risser in 1958, with a graded classification scheme developed at a later time.

Proper noun

Risser sign

  1. An indirect measure of skeletal maturity, whereby the ossification stage of the iliac apophysis is used to judge the ossification of the spinal vertebrae.
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