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US
/bəˈbɪnski/
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NOUN
- 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
How To Use Babinski In A Sentence
- 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.