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Babinski

[ US /bəˈbɪnski/ ]
NOUN
  1. extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front; normal in infants under the age of two years but a sign of brain or spinal cord injury in older persons

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  • No foot clonus, no Babinski; abdominal reflexes present, cremasteric not elicited; catalepsy not always present. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
  • ERROL MORRIS: But Babinski only used it in the context of hemiplegia.
  • Physical examination revealed left ankle clonus, positive Babinski sign on the left, and left lower extremity weakness.
  • Babinski obtained his doctorate with a meticulous thesis on the topography of lesions and their correlation with symptomatology in multiple sclerosis.
  • Physical examination revealed a febrile, obtunded female, arousable to painful stimuli with no Babinski or Hoffmann signs.
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