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The deep tendon reflexes are also diminished or absent; for example, the "knee jerk" or patellar reflex may be lacking (Westphal's sign). A complication of tabes dorsalis can be transient neuralgic paroxysmal pain affecting the eyes and the ophthalmic areas, previously called "Pel's crises" after Dutch physician P.K. Pel .
The Government should review legislation that restricts protest based on “knee-jerk public opinion”, a think tank has said. Cross-party think tank Demos said it had found “overwhelming ...
3 "Knee-jerk" 3 comments. 4 liberal = libertine. 4 comments. 5 Discrepancies? 6 comments. 6 POV essay cut from article. 10 comments. 7 removal of section. 6 comments.
Schematic representation of patellar tendon reflex (knee jerk) pathway. The patellar reflex, also called the knee reflex or knee-jerk, is a stretch reflex which tests the L2, L3, and L4 segments of the spinal cord. Many animals, most significantly humans, have been seen to have the patellar reflex, including dogs, cats, horses, and other ...
If conservative Missouri legislators were willing to repeal self-defense standards and modify open carry laws, would progressives or liberals be willing to step up? | Opinion
Jeremy Henzell-Thomas of The American Muslim deplored the petition as one of "these mechanical knee-jerk reactions [which] are gifts to those who seek every opportunity to decry Islam and ridicule Muslims and can only exacerbate a situation in which Muslims and the Western media seem to be locked in an ever-descending spiral of ignorance and ...
If you "buy" a piece of land from another, technically you're not buying the land, rather you're buying what's called a fee simple estate in the land, meaning you're buying all the rights that you would normally associate with ownership, and for all intents and purposes, you are the owner, yet technically all you really are is a tenant of the ...
The Jendrassik maneuver to reinforce knee-jerk. The Jendrassik maneuver is a medical maneuver wherein the patient clenches the teeth, flexes both sets of fingers into a hook-like form, and interlocks those sets of fingers together. The tendon below the patient's knee is then hit with a reflex hammer to elicit the patellar reflex. The elicited ...