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  2. Plantar reflex - Wikipedia

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    Babinski's sign in a healthy newborn. The Babinski sign can indicate upper motor neuron lesion constituting damage to the corticospinal tract.Occasionally, a pathological plantar reflex is the first and only indication of a serious disease process and a clearly abnormal plantar reflex often prompts detailed neurological investigations, including CT scanning of the brain or MRI of the spine, as ...

  3. Gordon's sign - Wikipedia

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    Gordon's sign is a clinical sign in which squeezing the calf muscle elicits an extensor plantar reflex. It is found in patients with pyramidal tract lesions, and is one of a number of Babinski-like responses. [1] The sign is named after Alfred Gordon. [2]

  4. Gonda's sign - Wikipedia

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    Gonda's sign is a clinical sign in which flexing and then suddenly releasing the fourth toe elicits an extensor plantar reflex. It is found in patients with pyramidal tract lesions, and is one of a number of Babinski-like responses. [1]

  5. Upper motor neuron lesion - Wikipedia

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    Babinski sign is present, where the big toe is raised (extended) rather than curled downwards (flexed) upon appropriate stimulation of the sole of the foot. The presence of the Babinski sign is an abnormal response in adulthood. Normally, during the plantar reflex, it causes plantar flexion and the adduction of the toes.

  6. List of reflexes - Wikipedia

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    Plantar reflex — in infants up to 1 year of age, a curling of the toes when something rubs the ball of the foot. Pupillary accommodation reflex — a reduction of pupil size in response to an object coming close to the eye. Pupillary light reflex — a reduction of pupil size in response to light.

  7. Moniz sign - Wikipedia

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    Moniz sign is a clinical sign in which forceful passive plantar flexion of the ankle elicits an extensor plantar reflex. It is found in patients with pyramidal tract lesions, and is one of a number of Babinski-like responses. [1] It is named after Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz. [2]

  8. Pyramidal signs - Wikipedia

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    Babinski reflex: The plantar aspect of the foot is gently stimulated in a line starting a few centimeters distal to the heel and extended to a point just behind the toes, and then turned medially across the transverse arch. This is done slowly over 5-6 seconds. Roche's sign: Similar to Babinski but done on the external part of the foot.

  9. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    forceful plantar flexion of the ankle elicits an extensor plantar response Möbius sign: Paul Julius Möbius: endocrinology: thyrotoxicosis: Möbius sign at TheFreeDictionary.com: inability to maintain convergence of eyes Muehrcke's lines: Robert C. Muehrcke: nephrology, oncology: hypoalbuminaemia, chemotherapy: paired transverse white lines on ...