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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Kerley Lines- which are subdivided into ‘Kerley A Lines’ and ‘Kerley B Lines’ – are linear opacifications of the lung fields seen on some chest x-rays. They’re a sign of congestive heart failure. The lines are named after a Dr. Kerley and are not especially curly. Examples:
Pleural effusions and curly B-lines in the lung periphery: engorged pulmonary lymphatics • In hypertrophic cardiomyopathies and cardiomyopathies …
www.medfamily.org/diagnosis/C/diagnosis … tage.phtml
His chest x-ray shows cardiomegaly with pulmonary venous congestion and Curly B lines. His electrocardiogram was essentially normal …
gunston.gmu.edu/708/calcium/book2/LaingImprovingHealthBehaviorChange.doc
Lesser degrees of edema cause the prominence of lymph channels at the lung periphery known as “Curly B” lines, with or without pleural effusions. ...
www.uvm.edu/~jkessler/Pulmonar/PUEL/PUedemae.htm
I can’t see curly B lines on chest X-rays no matter how hard I look….
www.lemonsoju.com/esca/archive17.html
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An interesting kind of quasi-/perhaps- eggcorn.
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It’s another of the proper name kind, but with the proper name in the acorn, which kem et al seem to accept as kosher. Not like petty-Annie but like Old-timers Disease.
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Unless one saw it written or heard it explained, one would almost be forced to hear the eggcorn. Yet the lines “are not especially curlyâ€. So their non-curliness clues us in to the fact that this is not the proper etymology. But at the same time, it diminishes the eggcornishness: the result is not something that fits in all the same contexts as the acorn, in fact the semantic contrast would keep that from happening. Unless people just think, “illogically enough, they’re called curly lines even though they’re not curly.â€
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Of course, language is full of little illogicalities. Like English horns, silverfish. But we, led by Pat, have been so fastidious as to balk at according them the exalted status of eggcorns. Probably rightly, I don’t doubt.
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As I said, an interesting case.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-04-08 22:36:14)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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klakritz wrote:
Kerley Lines- which are subdivided into ‘Kerley A Lines’ and ‘Kerley B Lines’ – are linear opacifications of the lung fields seen on some chest x-rays. They’re a sign of congestive heart failure. The lines are named after a Dr. Kerley and are not especially curly.
Well, I wouldn’t have thought that the beelines would be curly! Here’s a further variation that had somebody else flummoxed:
Medical Transcription Word Board:
Question: Curly bee lines???
Tue May 23, 2006 23:29
Doc is reviewing chest x-ray checking for possible CHF. The pt has a history of copd and asthma.
X-ray previously obtained in triage is reviewed showing minimal, if any, congestive heart failure, slight increase left greater than right, no _“curly bee” signs are seen.
Thanks.
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Anonymous
Kerley B lines (nm)
Tue May 23, 2006 23:31
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Anonymous
TYVM, never would have got that one!! (nm)
(http://www.thegreatdictator.com/cgi-bin … cgi/593700)
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