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Decorticate posturing is also called decorticate response, decorticate rigidity, flexor posturing, or, colloquially, "mummy baby". [5] Patients with decorticate posturing present with the arms flexed, or bent inward on the chest, the hands are clenched into fists, and the legs extended and feet turned inward.
Decortication is a medical procedure involving the surgical removal of the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of an organ.The procedure is usually performed when the lung is covered by a thick, inelastic pleural peel restricting lung expansion.
Decorticate posturing is a stereotypical posturing in which the patient has arms flexed at the elbow, and arms adducted toward the body, with both legs extended. Decerebrate posturing is a stereotypical posturing in which the legs are similarly extended (stretched), but the arms are also stretched (extended at the elbow). The posturing is ...
Decorticate posturing, with elbows, wrists and fingers flexed, and legs extended and rotated inward. Brain herniation frequently presents with abnormal posturing, [2] a characteristic positioning of the limbs indicative of severe brain damage. These patients have a lowered level of consciousness, with Glasgow Coma Scores of three to five.
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It is sometimes referred to as a "response", to allow for possible conscious cerebral influence of the action. However, hopping and placing reactions, long loop stretch reflexes are probably integrated by the cerebral cortex. Decorticate animals show absence of this reflex.
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