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Risser sign en · PROPN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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.