Taber's Medical Dictionary
olive
(ol′ĭv)
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SEE: 1. Inferior olive.
2. An egg-shaped device small enough to fit on the tip of a vein stripper. The olive prevents damage to the vein as the stripper is pushed into it.SEE: 3. Olivary complex.
4. An enlarged stenotic pylorus in infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.
SYN: SEE: olivary complex
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Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Olive." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Taber's Online, www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/770194/all/olive.
Olive. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/770194/all/olive. Accessed December 8, 2023.
Olive. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/770194/all/olive
Olive [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2023 December 08]. Available from: https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/770194/all/olive.
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