frog view

plural frog views

1. medicineA lateral view of the hips with the legs positioned like a frog on a lily pad to prevent them from obscuring each other.

   In 3 of his cases, abnormal findings were equivocal or absent in the anteroposterior view but clearly demonstrable in the frog view.

   1963, RSNA Index to Imaging Literature - Volume 81, page 361

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   How can we reconcile such an apparently simple picture as that presented to us by Theron's work with the complicated, somewhat illogical grouping that is revealed to us by the anterolateral and frog views of the hip.

   1983, David M. Gruebel Lee, David M. Hirsh, Disorders of the Hip, page 150

   We routinely use a lateral frog view for followup hip evaluation but occasionally obtain a cross-table lateral view to evaluate acetabular component version.

   2014, Giles R Scuderi, Techniques in Revision Hip and Knee Arthroplasty E-Book: Expert Consult, →ISBN

2. alternativeAlternative form of frog's-eye view.

   We perceive the bird and frog views simultaneously, although what hybrid monstrosity we become in the process is not clear.

   2016, Garfield Benjamin, The Cyborg Subject: Reality, Consciousness, Parallax, →ISBN, page 168

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   In many ways this is like the bird (outside the system) and frog (inside the system) views used [8, 9] by Tegmark. In effect one has here a hierarchy of bird and frog views.

   2009, Kazem Mahdavi, Deborah Koslover, Advances in Quantum Computation, →ISBN

   On Math, Matter and Mind Max Tegmark refers to the many-worlds situation of component 'observers' as moving from a 'birds eye' view to a 'frog view', the frog being inside the process of the wavefunction (figure 3).

   2012, Graham Smetham, Quantum Buddhist Wonders of the Universe, →ISBN, page 96