crab

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The criteria for diagnosing myeloma are sometimes described using the acronym CRAB: Calcium elevation, Renal issues, Anemia, Bone problems.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

Yet carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, or CRAB, is a nightmare for hospitals worldwide, as it kills roughly half of all patients who acquire it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2024

CRAB, which offers individual and group lessons, family sailing events and competitive regattas, can accommodate pretty much any kind of disability, Bollinger said: blindness, deafness, autism, muscular dystrophy, “really anything you can think of.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2019

“The raft will not be named the CRAB, either, it seems,” said Nyoda.

From The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)

CRAB, the.—What it is to think as a crab walks, 295.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel