NOUN
- symptom of meningitis; patient cannot extend the leg at the knee when the thigh is flexed because of stiffness in the hamstrings
How To Use Kernig's sign In A Sentence
- - Classical meningeal syndrome with fever, meningism, neck stiffness, Budzinski and Kernig's signs positive: the patient lying extended, involuntarily flexes the knees when the neck is flexed or when the legs are raised vertically with the knees in extension. Chapter 12
