page_title: Costovertebral angle
hierarchical_section_title: Costovertebral angle
caption_attribution_description: Македонски: Поглед на човековиот скелет одзади; обележан е костовертебралниот агол. English: View of the human skeleton from the back; the costovertebral angle is marked.
context_page_description: The costovertebral angle is the acute angle formed on either side of the human back between the twelfth rib and the vertebral column.
  The kidney lies directly below this area, so is the place where, with percussion, pain is elicited when the person has kidney inflammation. The presence of pain is marked as a positive Murphy's punch sign or as costovertebral angle tenderness.
context_section_description: The costovertebral angle (Latin: arcus costovertebralis) is the acute angle formed on either side of the human back between the twelfth rib and the vertebral column.
  The kidney lies directly below this area, so is the place where, with percussion (Latin: sucussio renalis), pain is elicited when the person has kidney inflammation. The presence of pain is marked as a positive Murphy's punch sign or as costovertebral angle tenderness.
caption: View of the human skeleton from the back; the costovertebral angle is marked.
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