frog view

frog view (plural frog views)

1. (radiology) A lateral view of the hips with the legs positioned like a frog on a lily pad to prevent them from obscuring each other.
   • 1963, RSNA Index to Imaging Literature - Volume 81, page 361:

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

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

     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.

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

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

2. Alternative form of frog's-eye view
   • 2009, Kazem Mahdavi, Deborah Koslover, Advances in Quantum Computation, →ISBN:

     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.

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

     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).

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

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