Gibney's perispondylitis

Gibney's perispondylitis

An obsolete term that eponymously dignifies any painful condition arising in the spinal muscles. The condition was described by Virgil Pendleton Gibney (1847–1927), an American surgeon; it is not used in the working medical parlance.
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