vague?
Posted By: pdqtrans on 2006-11-15
In Reply to: True, but dictator says "tenderness over the base of the 'odontoid' " as if he is talkin - MissouriMT
Subject: vague?
Unless he was making reference to an x-ray. However I was since the original post states there is a long pause in between words he/she is not sure whether it is cut off or if dictator is resting we don't know that he did not say .....whose shape is odontoid. It would no more be vague to describe an odontoid shaped bone in the hand than it would for the scaphoid and trapezoid to be in the hand as you previously stated unless the hand was twisted up around the back and therefore he should have tenderness, probably in his odontoid too.
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Found a few possibilities but they would all be vague and would be too much of a guess. Sorry.
Subject: Found a few possibilities but they would all be vague and would be too much of a guess. Sorry.
Yes, vague. What tooth shaped bone in the hand would the dicator be referring to? Any bone could
Subject: Yes, vague. What tooth shaped bone in the hand would the dicator be referring to? Any bone could
tooth shaped from injury or what have you. And like I said 9 times out of 10, odontoid refers to the "toothlike odontoid process in the second cervical vertebra." That's pretty specific, dontcha think? I've never heard a doctor refer to an "odontoid" in any other part of the body.
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