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Erb's signs or symptoms
Associated persons:
Wilhelm Heinrich Erb
Description:
1. Loss of the knee jerk as an early sign of tabes dorsalis.
2. Absent dilatation of pupil by painful irritation of the skin in tabes dorsalis.
3. Increased electrical irritability of motor nerves in tetany (Erb’s phenomenon)
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