subclavian steal syndrome
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[edit]Noun
[edit]subclavian steal syndrome (countable and uncountable, plural subclavian steal syndromes)
- (medicine) A constellation of signs and symptoms that arise from retrograde (reversed) flow of blood in the vertebral artery or the internal thoracic artery, due to a proximal stenosis and/or occlusion of the subclavian artery.