Beaking

Beak Sign

Bone A finding in a lateral spine film in patients with mucopolysaccharidoses and mucolipidoses, characterised by a bird-beak-like tapering of the anteroinferior or anterosuperior margin of the lumbar vertebrae; a ‘beak’ is also described in the medial aspect of the proximal tibia at the epiphyseal plate in Blount’s disease or coxa vara—functional correction may require osteotomy
Kidney A fanciful term referring to a gently curved outward bulging of the renal cortex, adjacent to a well-circumscribed renal mass in the late or nephrogram phase of selective renal angiography, indicating the presence of a slowly expanding, usually benign avascular renal cyst with smooth inner walls, typically seen in arterionephrosclerosis, but also in renal cell carcinoma

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beaking

Bone imaging A finding in a lateral spine film in Pts with mucopolysaccharidoses and mucolipidoses, characterized by a bird-beak-like tapering of the anteroinferior or anterosuperior margin of the lumbar vertebrae; a 'beak' is also described in the medial aspect of the proximal tibia at the epiphyseal plate in Blount's disease or coxa vara–functional correction may require osteotomy