whiskering appearance
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whiskering appearance
Imaging Short, linear spiculation seen by plain films of bone at the sites of muscle insertion and osseous stress, ± accompanied by osteosclerosis, cystic changes and dystrophic calcification; it is most common in the iliac, ischial and calcaneus bones, due to ankylosing spondylitis, DISH in renal osteodystrophy.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.