- Grocco triangle
- a triangular area of dullness on the back, on the side opposite to that of a pleural effusion. Called also Grocco sign and paravertebral t.
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Grocco triangle
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Grocco triangle (sign) — Groc·co triangle (sign) (grokґo) [Pietro Grocco, Italian physician, 1856–1916] see under triangle … Medical dictionary
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