| Eponyms in category: Nervous system |
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| Achilles' reflex (Achilles' tendon reflex) |
| Plantar flexion extension of foot resulting from contraction of calf muscles following a sharp blow to the Achilles tendon. |
| Achilles' tendon reflex |
| Plantar flexion extension of foot resulting from contraction of calf muscles following a sharp blow to the Achilles tendon. |
| Adams-Victor-Mancall syndrome (Raymond Delacy Adams) |
| Progressive facial and tongue weakness, speech and deglutition impairment in alcoholic or nutritionally deprived patients. |
| Adie's syndrome |
| A neurological phenomenon in which one or both pupils is dilated and responds slowly or not at all to light and a near stimulus, accompanied by slow constriction and relaxation in the change from near to distant vision, and impaired accommodation. |
| Adie-Holmes syndrome (Adie's syndrome) |
| A neurological phenomenon in which one or both pupils is dilated and responds slowly or not at all to light and a near stimulus, accompanied by slow constriction and relaxation in the change from near to distant vision, and impaired accommodation. |
| Adie’s pupil (Adie's syndrome) |
| A neurological phenomenon in which one or both pupils is dilated and responds slowly or not at all to light and a near stimulus, accompanied by slow constriction and relaxation in the change from near to distant vision, and impaired accommodation. |
| Albert Mouchet's syndrome (Mouchet's paralysis) |
| A historical term for a paralysis of the cubital nerve following fractures of the external condyle of the humerus in childhood. |
| Alexander's syndrome (William Stewart Alexander) |
| A rare familial disease with degenerative changes of the central nervous system in children. |
| Alexander’s disease (Alexander's syndrome (William Stewart Alexander)) |
| A rare familial disease with degenerative changes of the central nervous system in children. |
| Alzheimer's baskets |
| Condensed clumps of filaments between the nerve cells seen in advanced cases of Alzheimer's disease.
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| Andermann's syndrome |
| A familial syndrome affecting both sexes, characterized by agenesis of the corpus callosum, mental retardation, and progressive sensimotor neuropathy. |
| Anton-Vogt syndrome (Hammond's disease) |
| A disturbance with onset months after birth characterised by slow, writhing, purposeless movements mainly affecting the hands and face, with forced laughter and crying. |
| Apley's grinding test |
| Orthopaedic test for meniscal tear.
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| Aqueduct of Falloppio (Fallopian canal) |
| The facial canal. The facial nerve passes through this canal in the temporal bone. |
| Aran-Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy |
| Condition characterized by chronic progressive wasting of muscles with subsequent weakness and paralysis. |
| Argyll Roberton’s pupil (Argyll Robertson's syndrome) |
| A frequent symptom of neurosyphilis, especially tabes dorsalis, and other diseases of the central nervous system, in which the pupil is small and responds slowly or not at all to light, but reaction to accommodation and convergence is retained. |
| Argyll Robertson's syndrome |
| A frequent symptom of neurosyphilis, especially tabes dorsalis, and other diseases of the central nervous system, in which the pupil is small and responds slowly or not at all to light, but reaction to accommodation and convergence is retained. |
| Arnold Pick’s circumscribed brain atrophy syndrome (Pick's disease (Arnold Pick)) |
| A rare and fatal degenerative disease of the nervous system. Clinically there are major overlaps with Alzheimer's presenile dementia. |
| Arnold's canal |
| A passage of the petrous portion of the temporal bone for the auricular branch of the vagus. |
| Arnold's nerve |
| Auricular branch of the vagus nerve.
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| Arnold's nerve cough |
| Reflex cough, caused by irritation of auricular branch of vagus (X) nerve. |
| Arnold's neuralgia |
| Neuralgia of the recurrent laryngeal nerve. |
| Arnold's neuralgia (Arnold's nerve cough) |
| Reflex cough, caused by irritation of auricular branch of vagus (X) nerve. |
| Auerbach's ganglia |
| Collections of parasympathetic nerve cells in the myenteric plexus. |
| Auerbach's plexus |
| The myenteric plexus. |
| Avellis' hemiplegia (Avellis' paralysis syndrome) |
| A neurological disorder characterized by a peculiar form of alternating paralysis. |
| Avellis' paralysis syndrome |
| A neurological disorder characterized by a peculiar form of alternating paralysis. |
| Avellis' syndrome (Avellis' paralysis syndrome) |
| A neurological disorder characterized by a peculiar form of alternating paralysis. |
| Avellis-Longhi syndrome (Avellis' paralysis syndrome) |
| A neurological disorder characterized by a peculiar form of alternating paralysis. |
| Axenfeld-Schürenberg syndrome |
| The muscles innervated by the third cranial nerve manifest phases of paralysis alternating with spasms, associated with blepharopthosis and mydriasis. |
| Babinski's method |
| Method for eliciting the Achilles reflex. |
| Babinski's reflex (Babinski's sign I) |
| A pathological reflex where the great toe extends and flexes toward the top of the foot and the other toes fan out when the sole of the foot is firmly stroked. |
| Babinski's sign I |
| A pathological reflex where the great toe extends and flexes toward the top of the foot and the other toes fan out when the sole of the foot is firmly stroked. |
| Babinski's sign II |
| Galvanic test for unilateral hearing disturbance. |
| Babinski's sign III |
| Lost or diminished Achilles tendon reflex in sciatica.
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| Babinski-Froment syndrome |
| A neurological syndrome characterized by vasomotor and trophic disorders, diffuse amyotrophy, exaggerated tendon reflexes, and muscle contractions. |
| Babinski’s ear phenomenon (Babinski's sign II) |
| Galvanic test for unilateral hearing disturbance. |
| Babinski’s test (Babinski's sign I) |
| A pathological reflex where the great toe extends and flexes toward the top of the foot and the other toes fan out when the sole of the foot is firmly stroked. |
| Babkin's reflex |
| Congenital, not conditioned reflex in newborn. |
| Balduzzi's reflex |
| So called contralateral reflex of the abductors of the leg. |
| Bamberger's disease I |
| Clonic spasms of the leg muscles, producing tics and a peculiar jumping or springing motion. |
| Bárány's pointing test |
| Objective, clinical test for demonstrating the existence of disturbances of the vestibular apparatus and its paths in the brain. |
| Bárány's syndrome |
| A syndrome of unilateral headache in back of the head with ipsilateral recurrent deafness, vertigo, tinnitus and abnormal pointing test and reduced irritability in Bárány's test. |
| Barraquer's reflex |
| The grasp reflex. |
| Bastian-Bruns law or sign |
| In complete transverse section of the upper spinal cord the reflexes and muscular tone below the level of the lesion are lost. |
| Bastian’s rule (Bastian-Bruns law or sign) |
| In complete transverse section of the upper spinal cord the reflexes and muscular tone below the level of the lesion are lost. |
| Beard's disease |
| Obsolete term used for persons with unexplained exhaustion with abnormal fatigability - nervous exhaustion. |
| Bednar-Parrot disease (Wegner's disease) |
| Pseudoparalysis due to separation of orthochondritic epiphyses occurring in infants with congenital syphilis. |
| Bednar-Parrot syndrome (Wegner's disease) |
| Pseudoparalysis due to separation of orthochondritic epiphyses occurring in infants with congenital syphilis. |
| Begbie’s syndrome (Dubini's disease) |
| No longer used term for the myoclonic form of epidemic encephalitis. |
| Bekhterev's nucleus |
| The superior nucleus of the vestibular nerve.
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| Bekhterev's nystagmus |
| Nystagmus that develops after the destruction of the labyrinth. |
| Bekhterev's pectoralis reflex |
| Extension reflex of the pectoralis muscle. |
| Bekhterev's reflex |
| Three reflexes described by Bekhterev. They concern the face, eye, and abdominal muscles. |
| Bekhterev's reflex I |
| Paradoxical reflex with dilatation of the pupil on exposure to light. |
| Bekhterev's reflex II |
| So-called scapulohumeral reflex. |
| Bekhterev's reflex of hand |
| One of the hand-flexor phenomena. |
| Bekhterev's reflex of the heel |
| Toe-flexion reflex closely related to the Rossolimi reflex. |
| Bekhterev-Jacobsohn reflex |
| A finger flexion reflex which corresponds to the Bekhterev-Mendel foot reflex. |
| Bell's law (Bell-Magendie law) |
| The anterior spinal nerve roots contain only motor fibres and posterior roots only sensory fibres. |
| Bell's nerve |
| The posterior or long thoracic nerve. |
| Bell's palsy (Bell's paralysis) |
| Peripheral, usually unilateral, idiopathic paralysis of facial muscles. |
| Bell's paralysis |
| Peripheral, usually unilateral, idiopathic paralysis of facial muscles. |
| Bell's phenomenon |
| When a patient with peripheral facial paralysis attempts to close the eye, there is an upward movement of the eye and the eyelid on the paralysed side of the face remains open.
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| Bell's spasm |
| Involuntary twitching of the facial muscles. |
| Bell's syndrome (Bell's paralysis) |
| Peripheral, usually unilateral, idiopathic paralysis of facial muscles. |
| Bell-Magendie law |
| The anterior spinal nerve roots contain only motor fibres and posterior roots only sensory fibres. |
| Bergeron’s chorea (Dubini's disease) |
| No longer used term for the myoclonic form of epidemic encephalitis. |
| Bergeron’s disease (Dubini's disease) |
| No longer used term for the myoclonic form of epidemic encephalitis. |
| Bernhardt's disease (Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia) |
| A syndrome marked by paraesthesia, pain, disturbance of sensation in the outer surface of the thigh in the region supplied by the external cutaneous femoral nerve often with trophic disturbances with hyperhydrosis and hairlessness. |
| Bernhardt's disturbance of sensation (Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia) |
| A syndrome marked by paraesthesia, pain, disturbance of sensation in the outer surface of the thigh in the region supplied by the external cutaneous femoral nerve often with trophic disturbances with hyperhydrosis and hairlessness. |
| Bernhardt's paralysis (Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia) |
| A syndrome marked by paraesthesia, pain, disturbance of sensation in the outer surface of the thigh in the region supplied by the external cutaneous femoral nerve often with trophic disturbances with hyperhydrosis and hairlessness. |
| Bernhardt's syndrome (Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia) |
| A syndrome marked by paraesthesia, pain, disturbance of sensation in the outer surface of the thigh in the region supplied by the external cutaneous femoral nerve often with trophic disturbances with hyperhydrosis and hairlessness. |
| Bernhardt-Roth disease (Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia) |
| A syndrome marked by paraesthesia, pain, disturbance of sensation in the outer surface of the thigh in the region supplied by the external cutaneous femoral nerve often with trophic disturbances with hyperhydrosis and hairlessness. |
| Bernhardt-Roth disease (Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia) |
| A syndrome marked by paraesthesia, pain, disturbance of sensation in the outer surface of the thigh in the region supplied by the external cutaneous femoral nerve often with trophic disturbances with hyperhydrosis and hairlessness. |
| Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia |
| A syndrome marked by paraesthesia, pain, disturbance of sensation in the outer surface of the thigh in the region supplied by the external cutaneous femoral nerve often with trophic disturbances with hyperhydrosis and hairlessness. |
| Bertolotti-Garcin syndrome (Guillain-Alajouanine-Garcin syndrome) |
| A rare syndrome of unilateral paralysis of all or nearly all cranial nerves in tumours of the nasopharynx and base of the skull without affecting the brain itself. |
| Bielschowsky's head tilt test |
| A test for palsy of the superior oblique muscle caused by damage to the IVth cranial nerve. |
| Bing's reflex or sign |
| Pathological reflex in spastic symptom-complexes. |
| Bourneville's disease (Bourneville-Pringle disease) |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Bourneville's syndrome (Bourneville-Pringle disease) |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Bourneville-Brissaud disease (Bourneville-Pringle disease) |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Bourneville-Pringle disease |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Bourneville–Pringle disease (Bourneville-Pringle disease) |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Bradbury-Eggleston syndrome |
| A degenerative disorder of the autonomic nervous system presenting in middle to late life, affecting men more than women, characterized by abnormal low blood pressure in standing position. |
| Bremer’s status dysraphicus syndrome (Passow's syndrome) |
| An association of Horner's syndrome with heterochromia iridis. |
| Briquet's ataxia |
| Hysterical ataxia manifested with weakening of the muscle sense and increased sensibility of the skin. |
| Brissaud's hemicraniosis (Brissaud-Sicard syndrome) |
| Facial hemispasms associated with motor disturbances - paralysis - of the contralateral extremity. |
| Brissaud's syndrome (Brissaud-Sicard syndrome) |
| Facial hemispasms associated with motor disturbances - paralysis - of the contralateral extremity. |
| Brissaud-Sicard symptom complex (Brissaud-Sicard syndrome) |
| Facial hemispasms associated with motor disturbances - paralysis - of the contralateral extremity. |
| Brissaud-Sicard syndrome |
| Facial hemispasms associated with motor disturbances - paralysis - of the contralateral extremity. |
| Brissaud’s disease (Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome) |
| A rare psychoneurological disorder with onset in childhood, usually at the age of 7 to 10 years, characterised by echolalia, pallilalia and coprolalia, a want for touch, and stottering. |
| Brissaud’s syndrome (Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome) |
| A rare psychoneurological disorder with onset in childhood, usually at the age of 7 to 10 years, characterised by echolalia, pallilalia and coprolalia, a want for touch, and stottering. |
| Brossard-Kaeser syndrome |
| A rare form of inheritable progressive spinal muscular atrophy with system degeneration of the motor anterior horn cells, affecting both sexes, involving mainly the scapular and peroneal muscles. |
| Brossard-Kaeser type of spinal scapulo-peroneal muscular atrophy (Brossard-Kaeser syndrome) |
| A rare form of inheritable progressive spinal muscular atrophy with system degeneration of the motor anterior horn cells, affecting both sexes, involving mainly the scapular and peroneal muscles. |
| Brossard-Stark-Kaeser syndrome (Brossard-Kaeser syndrome) |
| A rare form of inheritable progressive spinal muscular atrophy with system degeneration of the motor anterior horn cells, affecting both sexes, involving mainly the scapular and peroneal muscles. |
| Brown-Séquard's hemiplegia (Brown-Séquard's syndrome) |
| Hemisection of the spinal cord with neurological changes.
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| Brown-Séquard's paralysis (Brown-Séquard's syndrome) |
| Hemisection of the spinal cord with neurological changes.
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| Brown-Séquard's syndrome |
| Hemisection of the spinal cord with neurological changes.
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| Bruck-de Lange disease |
| A congenital syndrome of muscular hypertrophy, extrapyramidal disorders, and mental deficiency. |
| Bruck-de lange syndrome (Bruck-de Lange disease) |
| A congenital syndrome of muscular hypertrophy, extrapyramidal disorders, and mental deficiency. |
| Brunhes-Chavany syndrome (Chavany-Brunhes syndrome) |
| A disturbance marked by persistent headache and a variable degree of psychoneurotic manifestations, associated with calcification of the falx cerebri. |
| Büngner's cell cordons |
| A cordon shaped structure of Schwann cells and elements of the perineurium |
| Canavan's disease |
| A progressive, degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterised by spongy changes in the white matter. |
| Canavan's syndrome (Canavan's disease) |
| A progressive, degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterised by spongy changes in the white matter. |
| Canavan-van Bogaert-Bertrand syndrome (Canavan's disease) |
| A progressive, degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterised by spongy changes in the white matter. |
| Canavan’s sclerosis (Canavan's disease) |
| A progressive, degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterised by spongy changes in the white matter. |
| Cavaré-Romberg syndrome (Westphal's syndrome) |
| A familial form of intermittent hypocalcaemic paralysis. |
| Cavaré-Romberg-Westphal syndrome (Westphal's syndrome) |
| A familial form of intermittent hypocalcaemic paralysis. |
| Cavaré-Westphal syndrome (Westphal's syndrome) |
| A familial form of intermittent hypocalcaemic paralysis. |
| Charcot's zones |
| Hysterogenic zones.
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| Charcot-Erb disease (Erb-Charcot paralysis) |
| A rare syndrome consisting of spinal syphilis with paraesthesia, spastic weakness, and tiredness of the legs associated with pain, sphincter disorders, exaggerated deep reflexes, muscle atrophy, sensory disorders, and paraplegia. |
| Charcot-Joffroy syndrome (Spiller's syndrome) |
| A syndrome characterized by sensory disturbances, localized or diffuse pain in the back, chest, or legs, which may be followed by symptomatic weakness in the knees, and transverse myelitis. |
| Charlevoix disease (Andermann's syndrome) |
| A familial syndrome affecting both sexes, characterized by agenesis of the corpus callosum, mental retardation, and progressive sensimotor neuropathy. |
| Charlevoix-Saguenay spastic atresia |
| Spastic ataxia, characterized by spasticity, dysarthria, distal muscle wasting, foot deformities, truncal ataxia, absence of sensory potentials in the lower limbs, retinal striations similar to those in Leber’s atrophy, and frequent mitral valve prolapse. |
| Charlin-Sluder neuralgia |
| A neuro-ophthalmic syndrome of rhinorrhea, pronounced ocular and orbital pain, and paroxysmal congestion of the anterior segment of the eye. |
| Charlin’s syndrome (Charlin-Sluder neuralgia) |
| A neuro-ophthalmic syndrome of rhinorrhea, pronounced ocular and orbital pain, and paroxysmal congestion of the anterior segment of the eye. |
| Chavany-Brunhes syndrome |
| A disturbance marked by persistent headache and a variable degree of psychoneurotic manifestations, associated with calcification of the falx cerebri. |
| Chorea laryngis (Schrötter's chorea) |
| A course of chorea affecting the muscles of the larynx. |
| Chorea St. Viti (Sydenham's chorea) |
| An infectious disease of the central nervous system, appearing after a streptococcal infection, with subsequent rheumatic fever, characterised by involuntary purposeless contractions of the muscles of the trunk and extremities. |
| Collet-Sicard syndrome |
| Collective term comprising infectious disorders associated with encephalitis epidemica. |
| Collet’s syndrome (Collet-Sicard syndrome) |
| Collective term comprising infectious disorders associated with encephalitis epidemica. |
| Cooper's neuralgia |
| Irritability and neuralgia of the breast. |
| Cooper's testis |
| Neuralgia of the testicles. |
| Cornelia de Lange’s syndrome II (Bruck-de Lange disease) |
| A congenital syndrome of muscular hypertrophy, extrapyramidal disorders, and mental deficiency. |
| Costeff's syndrome |
| A condition characterized by infantile optic atrophy with chorea and spastic paraplegia, mild ataxia, mild cognitive deficiency, dysarthria and 3-methylglutaconic aciduria. |
| Cotugno's disease (Cotugno's syndrome) |
| A syndrome marked by unilateral neuralgia along the distribution of the sciatic nerve. |
| Cotugno's syndrome |
| A syndrome marked by unilateral neuralgia along the distribution of the sciatic nerve. |
| Cotunnius disease (Cotugno's syndrome) |
| A syndrome marked by unilateral neuralgia along the distribution of the sciatic nerve. |
| Crichton-Browne's sign |
| Twitching of the outer margins of the eyes and lips. An early sign of general paralysis in lunatics.
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| Cruveilhier's atrophy (Aran-Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy) |
| Condition characterized by chronic progressive wasting of muscles with subsequent weakness and paralysis. |
| Cruveilhier's disease (Aran-Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy) |
| Condition characterized by chronic progressive wasting of muscles with subsequent weakness and paralysis. |
| Cruveilhier's palsy (Aran-Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy) |
| Condition characterized by chronic progressive wasting of muscles with subsequent weakness and paralysis. |
| Cushing's syndrome II |
| A syndrome of multiple tumours of the spinal nerve roots and auditory nerves. |
| Czermak's vagus pressure |
| Czermak found that mechanical pressure on a spot of the carotid triangle in the neck produced lowering of the heart rate and subsequent loss of consciousness. |
| Dagnini's reflex (Guido Dagnini) |
| In hyper-reflexia or pyramidal tract lesions, percussion of the radial aspect of the back of the hand causes adduction and extension. |
| Dandy's phenomenon |
| A peculiar form of mock movements seen in loss of labyrinthian sense following toxic streptomycin damage. |
| Dandy's sign I |
| Clinical differential diagnostic sign in ischias. |
| Dandy's sign II |
| Clinical sign and a differential diagnostic sign against neuritis in N. ischiasdiscus in hernia of the Nucleus pulposus in the lower part of the spinal column. |
| Dandy's syndrome |
| Bilaterally absent vestibular function, occurring in two basic forms. |
| Davidenkov's syndrome (Brossard-Kaeser syndrome) |
| A rare form of inheritable progressive spinal muscular atrophy with system degeneration of the motor anterior horn cells, affecting both sexes, involving mainly the scapular and peroneal muscles. |
| de Lange's disease (Bruck-de Lange disease) |
| A congenital syndrome of muscular hypertrophy, extrapyramidal disorders, and mental deficiency. |
| de Morsier's syndrome I |
| Diencephalic lesions appearing in first decade of life associated with a variety of behavioural, psychomotor, and sensory disorders, as well as all signs of precocious sexual development. |
| Debré's syndrome II |
| A no longer commonly used term for a disease of small children characterized by hypotonia associated with accumulation of fat and glykogen in the liver. |
| Debré-Marie syndrome I |
| A pathological condition in which initial fever is followed by oedema and polyneuritis involving all four extremities. |
| Dejerine's "onion-peel sensory loss" |
| Sensory loss starting from mouth and nose and extending concentrically outward. |
| Dejerine's anterior bulbar syndrome. (Dejerine's syndrome II) |
| Alternating hypoglossial hemiplegia syndrome, anterior bulbar syndrome, pyramid-bulbar syndrome, pyramid-hypoglossal syndrome. |
| Dejerine's cortical sensory syndrome |
| Loss of proprioception, stereognosis with retention of touch, pain, temperature and vibration seen in parietal lobe lesion. |
| Dejerine's disease (Dejerine-Sottas neuropathy) |
| A slowly progressive hereditary form of hypertrophic neuritis characterised by motor and sensory disturbance in the extremities commencing in childhood or adolescence. |
| Dejerine's hand-bow phenomenon |
| A not commonly used term for the so-called hand-flexion reflex. |
| Dejerine's reflex (Dejerine's hand-bow phenomenon) |
| A not commonly used term for the so-called hand-flexion reflex. |
| Dejerine's syndrome I |
| No longer used term for a tabes-like disease picture in which deep sensation is depressed but tactile sense is normal, caused by lesion of long root fibres of posterior column. |
| Dejerine's syndrome II |
| Alternating hypoglossial hemiplegia syndrome, anterior bulbar syndrome, pyramid-bulbar syndrome, pyramid-hypoglossal syndrome. |
| Dejerine-Klumpke's paralysis |
| A syndrome with lesion of the lower arm plexus consisting of pain and paralysis and atrophy of the small muscles of the hand and forearm - area supplied by the ulnar nerve and the inner head of the median nerve. |
| Dejerine-Roussy disease |
| Syndrome due to lesions of the posterior thalamus. |
| Dejerine-Sottas atrophy (Dejerine-Sottas neuropathy) |
| A slowly progressive hereditary form of hypertrophic neuritis characterised by motor and sensory disturbance in the extremities commencing in childhood or adolescence. |
| Dejerine-Sottas neuropathy |
| A slowly progressive hereditary form of hypertrophic neuritis characterised by motor and sensory disturbance in the extremities commencing in childhood or adolescence. |
| Dejerine-Sottas syndrome (Dejerine-Sottas neuropathy) |
| A slowly progressive hereditary form of hypertrophic neuritis characterised by motor and sensory disturbance in the extremities commencing in childhood or adolescence. |
| Dejerine-Thomas atrophy |
| A chronic progressive ataxia. |
| Dejerine-Thomas syndrome (Dejerine-Thomas atrophy) |
| A chronic progressive ataxia. |
| Dejerine’s neurotabes (Dejerine's syndrome I) |
| No longer used term for a tabes-like disease picture in which deep sensation is depressed but tactile sense is normal, caused by lesion of long root fibres of posterior column. |
| Dejerine’s radicular syndrome (Dejerine's syndrome I) |
| No longer used term for a tabes-like disease picture in which deep sensation is depressed but tactile sense is normal, caused by lesion of long root fibres of posterior column. |
| Dennie-Marfan syndrome |
| Spastic paraplegia of the lower extremities and mental retardation in children with congenital syphilis. |
| Denny-Brown syndrome I (Nélaton's syndrome) |
| A rare hereditary syndrome characterized by sensory disorders of the lower extremities, leading to perforating ulceration of the feet and destruction of the underlying bones. |
| Denny-Brown's syndrome II |
| Bronchogenic carcinoma associated with primary degeneration of the dorsal root ganglion cells with primary degeneration of the muscles.
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| Denny-Brown’s association (Denny-Brown's syndrome II) |
| Bronchogenic carcinoma associated with primary degeneration of the dorsal root ganglion cells with primary degeneration of the muscles.
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| Denny-Brown’s syndrome I (Denny-Brown's syndrome II) |
| Bronchogenic carcinoma associated with primary degeneration of the dorsal root ganglion cells with primary degeneration of the muscles.
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| Dubini's disease |
| No longer used term for the myoclonic form of epidemic encephalitis. |
| Dubini's syndrome (Dubini's disease) |
| No longer used term for the myoclonic form of epidemic encephalitis. |
| Duchenne's syndrome |
| Nuclear amyotrophy resulting in chronic bulbar paralysis, which may represent early manifestations of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. |
| Duchenne-Aran spinal muscular atrophy (Aran-Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy) |
| Condition characterized by chronic progressive wasting of muscles with subsequent weakness and paralysis. |
| Duchenne-Aran syndrome (Aran-Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy) |
| Condition characterized by chronic progressive wasting of muscles with subsequent weakness and paralysis. |
| Duchenne-Erb paralysis |
| A disturbance caused by nerve lesion of plexus brachialis during birth, manifested as flaccid paralysis of a group of muscles of shoulder and upper arm involving cervical roots of 4th, 5th, and 6th cervical nerves. |
| Duchenne-Erb syndrome (Duchenne-Erb paralysis) |
| A disturbance caused by nerve lesion of plexus brachialis during birth, manifested as flaccid paralysis of a group of muscles of shoulder and upper arm involving cervical roots of 4th, 5th, and 6th cervical nerves. |
| Duchenne-Griesinger disease (Aran-Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy) |
| Condition characterized by chronic progressive wasting of muscles with subsequent weakness and paralysis. |
| Duchenne’s paralysis (Duchenne's syndrome) |
| Nuclear amyotrophy resulting in chronic bulbar paralysis, which may represent early manifestations of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. |
| Edinger's tract |
| Conductive pathway for basic perceptions og pain, temperature, pressure, and touch. |
| Edinger-Bahn (German) (Edinger's tract) |
| Conductive pathway for basic perceptions og pain, temperature, pressure, and touch. |
| Edinger-Westphal nucleus |
| The accessory nucleus of the 3rd oculomotor nerve. |
| Egas Moniz' sign |
| Forceful plantar flexion at the ankle may result in dorsiflexion of the toes in pyramidal tract lesions.
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| Eggleston-Bradbury syndrome (Bradbury-Eggleston syndrome) |
| A degenerative disorder of the autonomic nervous system presenting in middle to late life, affecting men more than women, characterized by abnormal low blood pressure in standing position. |
| Ehrenritter's ganglion |
| The superior ganglion of the glossopharyngeal nerve. |
| Eichhorst's disease (Eichhorst's neuritis) |
| A form of inflammation of connective tissue in which both the nerve sheath and the interstitial tissue of the muscle are affected.
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| Eichhorst's neuritis |
| A form of inflammation of connective tissue in which both the nerve sheath and the interstitial tissue of the muscle are affected.
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| Ekbom's syndrome (Wittmaack-Ekbom syndrome) |
| An unpleasant creeping sensation in the lower limbs, when the patient is at rest, inducing an intolerable restlessness and a desire to move the legs to relieve it. |
| Ekbom's syndrome II |
| A delusional syndrome in which the patient imagines the symptoms of parasitic infestation of the skin.
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| Elephant man's syndrome (misnomer) (Recklinghausen's disease) |
| Inheritable disease characterized by café au lait spots combined with multiple peripheral nerve tumours and a variety of others dysplastic abnormalities of the skin, nervous system, bones, endocrine organs and blood vessels. |
| Erb's phemomenon |
| Increased electrical irritability of motor nerves in tetany (Erb’s sign III). |
| Erb's point |
| The point on the side of the neck 2 to 3 cm above the clavicle and in front of the transverse process of the sixth cervical vertebra. |
| Erb's syndrome (Erb-Goldflam syndrome) |
| Syndrome characterized by ptosis, strabismus, occasionally by complete ophthalmoplegia externa, weakness of masticatory muscles, dysphagia, dysphonia, and general muscular exhaustion after slight activity. |
| Erb-Charcot paralysis |
| A rare syndrome consisting of spinal syphilis with paraesthesia, spastic weakness, and tiredness of the legs associated with pain, sphincter disorders, exaggerated deep reflexes, muscle atrophy, sensory disorders, and paraplegia. |
| Erb-Charcot syndrome (Erb-Charcot paralysis) |
| A rare syndrome consisting of spinal syphilis with paraesthesia, spastic weakness, and tiredness of the legs associated with pain, sphincter disorders, exaggerated deep reflexes, muscle atrophy, sensory disorders, and paraplegia. |
| Erb-Duchenne paralysis (Duchenne-Erb paralysis) |
| A disturbance caused by nerve lesion of plexus brachialis during birth, manifested as flaccid paralysis of a group of muscles of shoulder and upper arm involving cervical roots of 4th, 5th, and 6th cervical nerves. |
| Erb-Duchenne syndrome (Duchenne-Erb paralysis) |
| A disturbance caused by nerve lesion of plexus brachialis during birth, manifested as flaccid paralysis of a group of muscles of shoulder and upper arm involving cervical roots of 4th, 5th, and 6th cervical nerves. |
| Erb-Goldflam disease (Erb-Goldflam syndrome) |
| Syndrome characterized by ptosis, strabismus, occasionally by complete ophthalmoplegia externa, weakness of masticatory muscles, dysphagia, dysphonia, and general muscular exhaustion after slight activity. |
| Erb-Goldflam syndrome |
| Syndrome characterized by ptosis, strabismus, occasionally by complete ophthalmoplegia externa, weakness of masticatory muscles, dysphagia, dysphonia, and general muscular exhaustion after slight activity. |
| Erb-Oppenheim-Goldflam syndrome (Erb-Goldflam syndrome) |
| Syndrome characterized by ptosis, strabismus, occasionally by complete ophthalmoplegia externa, weakness of masticatory muscles, dysphagia, dysphonia, and general muscular exhaustion after slight activity. |
| Erb-Westphal symptom |
| The most important reflex anomaly seen in tabes dorsalis. |
| Erb’s IV spastic spinal syphilitic paralysis (Erb-Charcot paralysis) |
| A rare syndrome consisting of spinal syphilis with paraesthesia, spastic weakness, and tiredness of the legs associated with pain, sphincter disorders, exaggerated deep reflexes, muscle atrophy, sensory disorders, and paraplegia. |
| Erb’s palsy (Duchenne-Erb paralysis) |
| A disturbance caused by nerve lesion of plexus brachialis during birth, manifested as flaccid paralysis of a group of muscles of shoulder and upper arm involving cervical roots of 4th, 5th, and 6th cervical nerves. |
| Erb’s sign (Erb-Westphal symptom) |
| The most important reflex anomaly seen in tabes dorsalis. |
| Erb’s syndrome I (Erb-Charcot paralysis) |
| A rare syndrome consisting of spinal syphilis with paraesthesia, spastic weakness, and tiredness of the legs associated with pain, sphincter disorders, exaggerated deep reflexes, muscle atrophy, sensory disorders, and paraplegia. |
| Erb’s Vitus Dance (Huntington's chorea) |
| A rare disease of the central nervous system characterized by progressive dementia with grimacing, gesticulation, ataxic movements, finger twitching, dysarthria, speech disorders and other bizarre involuntary movements. |
| External respiratory nerve of Bell (Bell's nerve) |
| The posterior or long thoracic nerve. |
| Fahr’s disease (Chavany-Brunhes syndrome) |
| A disturbance marked by persistent headache and a variable degree of psychoneurotic manifestations, associated with calcification of the falx cerebri. |
| Fallopian canal |
| The facial canal. The facial nerve passes through this canal in the temporal bone. |
| Fallopian neuritis (Bell's paralysis) |
| Peripheral, usually unilateral, idiopathic paralysis of facial muscles. |
| Fazio-Londe paralysis (juvenile form) (Duchenne's syndrome) |
| Nuclear amyotrophy resulting in chronic bulbar paralysis, which may represent early manifestations of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. |
| Feinberg’s syndrome (Parsonage-Turner syndrome) |
| A now obsolete eponym once used to indicate many forms of cryptogenic neurologic atrophy of the shoulder and cervical plexus. |
| Feuerstein-Mims syndrome (Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome) |
| A congenital syndrome of anomalies affecting multiple body systems, especially the skin, skeleton, eyes, and central nervous system. |
| Fisher's syndrome (Miller Fisher's syndrome) |
| A disturbance thought to be a variant of the Guillain-Barré syndrome usually characterised by total external ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, and loss of tendon reflexes. |
| Flatau's syndrome |
| An autosomal recessive disorder with bizarre movements which may only be brought on by physical activity. |
| Foix-Chavany syndrome (Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome) |
| Facio-pharyngo-glosso-masticatory diplegia resulting from bilateral large artery infarcts of the opercular cortex. |
| Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome |
| Facio-pharyngo-glosso-masticatory diplegia resulting from bilateral large artery infarcts of the opercular cortex. |
| Foville-Wilson syndrome |
| Term used to describe the impairment of lateral convergence that is present in disseminated sclerosis. |
| Friedreich's foot |
| Claw foot (pes cavus) and apical foot with dorsal flexion of the toes, particularly the large toes, seen in Friedreich’s ataxia. |
| Fritsche’s syndrome (Chavany-Brunhes syndrome) |
| A disturbance marked by persistent headache and a variable degree of psychoneurotic manifestations, associated with calcification of the falx cerebri. |
| Froment's sign |
| An indication of ulnar nerve palsy.
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| Froment's syndrome |
| A syndrome marked by ataxia and progressive loss of vision, |
| Garcin's syndrome (Guillain-Alajouanine-Garcin syndrome) |
| A rare syndrome of unilateral paralysis of all or nearly all cranial nerves in tumours of the nasopharynx and base of the skull without affecting the brain itself. |
| Garcin-Guillain syndrome (Guillain-Alajouanine-Garcin syndrome) |
| A rare syndrome of unilateral paralysis of all or nearly all cranial nerves in tumours of the nasopharynx and base of the skull without affecting the brain itself. |
| Gerhardt's law |
| Law stating that in paralysis of the periodically recurring laryngeal nerve, the vocal cords assume a position between abduction and adduction, so-called cadaver position.
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| Gerhardt’s rule (Gerhardt's law) |
| Law stating that in paralysis of the periodically recurring laryngeal nerve, the vocal cords assume a position between abduction and adduction, so-called cadaver position.
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| Gerhardt’s syndrome (Gerhardt's law) |
| Law stating that in paralysis of the periodically recurring laryngeal nerve, the vocal cords assume a position between abduction and adduction, so-called cadaver position.
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| Gifford-Galassi reflex (Westphal-Pilcz sign) |
| Constriction of both pupils when an effort is made to close eyelids that are forcibly held apart. |
| Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome |
| A rare psychoneurological disorder with onset in childhood, usually at the age of 7 to 10 years, characterised by echolalia, pallilalia and coprolalia, a want for touch, and stottering. |
| Gillespie's syndrome II |
| A rare familial syndrome present from birth and affecting both sexes, characterised by eye abnormalities, congenital nonprogressive partial cerebellar ataxia with hypotonia. |
| Gilman and Barrett neuroaxonal dystrophy type I (Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome) |
| A very rare disease with degeneration of the globus pallidus, red nucleus, and substantia nigra of the brain. It is characterized by progressive Parkinson-like rigidity, athetotic movements, and progressive mental and emotional retardation. |
| Glanzmann-Saland syndrome (misnomer) (Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome) |
| The commonest form of acquired neuropathy, most frequently affecting young adults. Commences with progressive muscular weakness of extremities that may lead to paralysis. |
| Golgi's tendon organ |
| A proprioceptive sensory nerve ending embedded among the fibres of a tendon.
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| Golgi's tendon spindle (Golgi's tendon organ) |
| A proprioceptive sensory nerve ending embedded among the fibres of a tendon.
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| Golgi's tension-sensitive tendon receptor organ (Golgi's tendon organ) |
| A proprioceptive sensory nerve ending embedded among the fibres of a tendon.
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| Golgi-Mazzoni bodies |
| Sensory nerve endings) in the skin of the finger tips. |
| Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscle (Golgi-Mazzoni bodies) |
| Sensory nerve endings) in the skin of the finger tips. |
| Golgi-Mazzoni lamellated sensory corpuscles of dermis (Golgi-Mazzoni bodies) |
| Sensory nerve endings) in the skin of the finger tips. |
| Gombault's neuritis (Dejerine-Sottas neuropathy) |
| A slowly progressive hereditary form of hypertrophic neuritis characterised by motor and sensory disturbance in the extremities commencing in childhood or adolescence. |
| Gombault’s degeneration or demyelination (Dejerine-Sottas neuropathy) |
| A slowly progressive hereditary form of hypertrophic neuritis characterised by motor and sensory disturbance in the extremities commencing in childhood or adolescence. |
| Gombault’s syndrome (Dejerine-Sottas neuropathy) |
| A slowly progressive hereditary form of hypertrophic neuritis characterised by motor and sensory disturbance in the extremities commencing in childhood or adolescence. |
| Gordon's finger phenomenon I (Alfred Gordon) |
| Compression in the forearm muscle or pisiform bone may result in flexion of all fingers or the thumb and forefinger. |
| Gordon's finger phenomenon II (Alfred Gordon) |
| Extension and fanning of fingers in active and wide opening of the mouth. |
| Gordon's knee phenomenon (Gordon's symptom (Alfred Gordon)) |
| A phenomenon of the patellar reflex. |
| Gordon's paradoxical flexor reflex (Alfred Gordon) |
| Extension of great toe or all toes produced by firm pressure on deep flexor muscles of calf of leg. |
| Gordon's phenomenon (Gordon's symptom (Alfred Gordon)) |
| A phenomenon of the patellar reflex. |
| Gordon's reflexes (Alfred Gordon) |
| Reflexes characteristic of choreatic (particularly chorea minor) or choreatiform movement disturbances. |
| Gordon's sign (Gordon's finger phenomenon I (Alfred Gordon)) |
| Compression in the forearm muscle or pisiform bone may result in flexion of all fingers or the thumb and forefinger. |
| Gordon's symptom (Alfred Gordon) |
| A phenomenon of the patellar reflex. |
| Gordon-Schäffer reflex (Gordon's paradoxical flexor reflex (Alfred Gordon)) |
| Extension of great toe or all toes produced by firm pressure on deep flexor muscles of calf of leg. |
| Gowers' ischias symptom (Gowers' phenomenon) |
| Clinical sign in ischias. |
| Gowers' phenomenon |
| Clinical sign in ischias. |
| Gowers' syndrome III |
| A syndrome characterised by attacks of paraesthesia, dyspnoea, precordial discomfort in the form of pain or palpitation, depressed pulse, pallor, cramps, and a feeling of apprehension and dread. |
| Gradenigo's syndrome |
| A syndrome characterised by ipsilateral paralysis of the abducens nerve (sixth cranial nerve) and other neurological symptoms. |
| Gradenigo's triad (Gradenigo's syndrome) |
| A syndrome characterised by ipsilateral paralysis of the abducens nerve (sixth cranial nerve) and other neurological symptoms. |
| Gradenigo-Lannois syndrome (Gradenigo's syndrome) |
| A syndrome characterised by ipsilateral paralysis of the abducens nerve (sixth cranial nerve) and other neurological symptoms. |
| Gradenigo-petrosum syndrome (Gradenigo's syndrome) |
| A syndrome characterised by ipsilateral paralysis of the abducens nerve (sixth cranial nerve) and other neurological symptoms. |
| Grasset's polygon |
| Mentioned by one author, but it is probably one of the other signs.
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| Grasset-Gaussel sign I |
| A sign of upper motor neurone involvement. |
| Grasset-Gaussel sign II |
| Phenomenon of the so-called complementary opposition in unilateral pyramidal lesion. |
| Grasset’s sign (Grasset-Gaussel sign I) |
| A sign of upper motor neurone involvement. |
| Grasset’s sign (Grasset-Gaussel sign II) |
| Phenomenon of the so-called complementary opposition in unilateral pyramidal lesion. |
| Griesinger’s disease I (Aran-Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy) |
| Condition characterized by chronic progressive wasting of muscles with subsequent weakness and paralysis. |
| Gubler's level (Gubler's line) |
| The level of superficial origin of the trigeminus or fifth nerve. |
| Gubler's line |
| The level of superficial origin of the trigeminus or fifth nerve. |
| Gudden's inferior commissure |
| Fibres of optic tract. |
| Gudden's law |
| In the division of a nerve, degeneration in the proximal portion is toward the nerve cell.
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| Gudden's tract |
| The transverse peduncular tract. |
| Gudden-Wanner sign |
| Shortening of the bone conduction of the sound of a tuning fork over bony cranial scars. |
| Guertin's syndrome (Dubini's disease) |
| No longer used term for the myoclonic form of epidemic encephalitis. |
| Guertin’s disease (Dubini's disease) |
| No longer used term for the myoclonic form of epidemic encephalitis. |
| Guillain-Alajouanine-Garcin syndrome |
| A rare syndrome of unilateral paralysis of all or nearly all cranial nerves in tumours of the nasopharynx and base of the skull without affecting the brain itself. |
| Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome |
| The commonest form of acquired neuropathy, most frequently affecting young adults. Commences with progressive muscular weakness of extremities that may lead to paralysis. |
| Guillain-Betrand-Lereboullet syndrome |
| One of the choreiform syndromes. |
| Guinon's disease (Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome) |
| A rare psychoneurological disorder with onset in childhood, usually at the age of 7 to 10 years, characterised by echolalia, pallilalia and coprolalia, a want for touch, and stottering. |
| Guinon’s disease (Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome) |
| A rare psychoneurological disorder with onset in childhood, usually at the age of 7 to 10 years, characterised by echolalia, pallilalia and coprolalia, a want for touch, and stottering. |
| Guinon’s myospasmia impulsiva. (Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome) |
| A rare psychoneurological disorder with onset in childhood, usually at the age of 7 to 10 years, characterised by echolalia, pallilalia and coprolalia, a want for touch, and stottering. |
| Gökay-Tükel syndrome (Westphal-Leyden ataxia) |
| Acute ataxia with onset in childhood. |
| Hallervorden's syndrome |
| A rather variable and aspecific disturbance of unknown aetiology marked by neurologic and mental symptoms and signs of progressive loss of vision and speech, then hearing, down to decerebration. |
| Hallervorden-Spatz disease (Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome) |
| A very rare disease with degeneration of the globus pallidus, red nucleus, and substantia nigra of the brain. It is characterized by progressive Parkinson-like rigidity, athetotic movements, and progressive mental and emotional retardation. |
| Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome |
| A very rare disease with degeneration of the globus pallidus, red nucleus, and substantia nigra of the brain. It is characterized by progressive Parkinson-like rigidity, athetotic movements, and progressive mental and emotional retardation. |
| Hammond's athetoid (Hammond's disease) |
| A disturbance with onset months after birth characterised by slow, writhing, purposeless movements mainly affecting the hands and face, with forced laughter and crying. |
| Hammond's disease |
| A disturbance with onset months after birth characterised by slow, writhing, purposeless movements mainly affecting the hands and face, with forced laughter and crying. |
| Hammond’s syndrome (Hammond's disease) |
| A disturbance with onset months after birth characterised by slow, writhing, purposeless movements mainly affecting the hands and face, with forced laughter and crying. |
| Hanhart's disease |
| Familial spastic paraplegia associated with mental deficiency. |
| Hanhart's syndrome IV (Hanhart's disease) |
| Familial spastic paraplegia associated with mental deficiency. |
| Hanken-Büngner Bänder (German) (Büngner's cell cordons) |
| A cordon shaped structure of Schwann cells and elements of the perineurium |
| Hartmann's apraxia (Friedrich Hartmann) |
| Apraxia resulting from tumours of the frontal lobe. |
| Hartmann’s syndrome (Friedrich Hartmann) (Guillain-Alajouanine-Garcin syndrome) |
| A rare syndrome of unilateral paralysis of all or nearly all cranial nerves in tumours of the nasopharynx and base of the skull without affecting the brain itself. |
| Head's syndrome (Head-Holmes syndrome) |
| Sensory changes produced by lesions of the cerebral cortex and other parts of the brain. |
| Head-Holmes syndrome |
| Sensory changes produced by lesions of the cerebral cortex and other parts of the brain. |
| Head-Riddoch syndrome |
| A syndrome occurring in quadriplegic patients. |
| Heine-Medin disease |
| An acute viral affection caused by any of three polioviruses (RNA/enterovirus of the picornavirus family). |
| Helweg-Larsen's syndrome |
| A familial syndrome marked by anhidrosis present from birth, ectodermal dysplasia, and neurolabyrinthian deafness developing in the fourth or fifth decade. |
| Henle's sheath |
| Connective tissue supporting outer layer of individual nerve fibres in funiculus.
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| Henoch-Bergeron syndrome (Dubini's disease) |
| No longer used term for the myoclonic form of epidemic encephalitis. |
| Henoch’s disease (Dubini's disease) |
| No longer used term for the myoclonic form of epidemic encephalitis. |
| Hicks' syndrome (Nélaton's syndrome) |
| A rare hereditary syndrome characterized by sensory disorders of the lower extremities, leading to perforating ulceration of the feet and destruction of the underlying bones. |
| Hilton's law |
| The nerve trunk supplying a joint also supplies the overlying skin and the muscles that move the joint. |
| Hoffman's phenomenon (Johann Hoffmann) |
| Excessive irritability of the sensory nerves to electrical or mechanical stimuli in tetany. |
| Hoffmann's atrophy (Johann Hoffmann) (Werdnig-Hoffmann syndrome (Johann Hoffmann)) |
| An infantile familial form of progressive spinal muscular atrophy resulting from degeneration of the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord. |
| Hoffmann's reflex (Johann Hoffmann) |
| Finger reflex for hyper-reflexia. |
| Hoffmann's sign (Johann Hoffmann) |
| A phenomenon which is a electrophysiological sign of tetany. |
| Hoffmann’s digital reflex (Johann Hoffmann) (Hoffmann's reflex (Johann Hoffmann)) |
| Finger reflex for hyper-reflexia. |
| Hoffmann’s sign (Johann Hoffmann) (Hoffmann's reflex (Johann Hoffmann)) |
| Finger reflex for hyper-reflexia. |
| Holmes-Adie syndrome (Adie's syndrome) |
| A neurological phenomenon in which one or both pupils is dilated and responds slowly or not at all to light and a near stimulus, accompanied by slow constriction and relaxation in the change from near to distant vision, and impaired accommodation. |
| Hoppe-Goldflam symptom complex (Erb-Goldflam syndrome) |
| Syndrome characterized by ptosis, strabismus, occasionally by complete ophthalmoplegia externa, weakness of masticatory muscles, dysphagia, dysphonia, and general muscular exhaustion after slight activity. |
| Hoppe-Goldflam syndrome (Erb-Goldflam syndrome) |
| Syndrome characterized by ptosis, strabismus, occasionally by complete ophthalmoplegia externa, weakness of masticatory muscles, dysphagia, dysphonia, and general muscular exhaustion after slight activity. |
| Hunt's corpus striatum-juvenile parkinsonism syndrome (Ramsay Hunt's paralysis) |
| A disturbance with symptoms resembling those of the adult form of parkinsonism, but less intense than in Parkinson’s disease. |
| Hunt's disease (Ramsay Hunt's syndrome III) |
| Occupational compression neuritis of the deep palmar branch of the ulnar nerve. |
| Hunt's syndrome II (Ramsay Hunt's paralysis) |
| A disturbance with symptoms resembling those of the adult form of parkinsonism, but less intense than in Parkinson’s disease. |
| Huntington's chorea |
| A rare disease of the central nervous system characterized by progressive dementia with grimacing, gesticulation, ataxic movements, finger twitching, dysarthria, speech disorders and other bizarre involuntary movements. |
| Hunt’s paralysis (Ramsay Hunt's paralysis) |
| A disturbance with symptoms resembling those of the adult form of parkinsonism, but less intense than in Parkinson’s disease. |
| Hutchinson's pupil |
| The pupil of the eye on the side of lesion is reflectively fixed and widely dilated due to a lesion in the central nervous system (3rd nerve lesion), while the other pupil contracts. |
| Hutchinson-Boeck pupil (Hutchinson's pupil) |
| The pupil of the eye on the side of lesion is reflectively fixed and widely dilated due to a lesion in the central nervous system (3rd nerve lesion), while the other pupil contracts. |
| Incomplete Horner syndrome (Ræder's syndrome) |
| A neurological disease resembling the Horner syndrome.
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| Jacobsohn’s finger flexion sign (Bekhterev-Jacobsohn reflex) |
| A finger flexion reflex which corresponds to the Bekhterev-Mendel foot reflex. |
| Jacobsohn’s sign (Bekhterev-Jacobsohn reflex) |
| A finger flexion reflex which corresponds to the Bekhterev-Mendel foot reflex. |
| Jadassohn's nevus phakomatosis (Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome) |
| A congenital syndrome of anomalies affecting multiple body systems, especially the skin, skeleton, eyes, and central nervous system. |
| Jefferson's syndrome |
| A neurological disease picture occurring in cases of aneurysms of the a. carotidis interna in the area of foramen lacerum. |
| Kaeser's syndrome (Brossard-Kaeser syndrome) |
| A rare form of inheritable progressive spinal muscular atrophy with system degeneration of the motor anterior horn cells, affecting both sexes, involving mainly the scapular and peroneal muscles. |
| Kahler-Pick law (Arnold Pick) |
| A law stating that the posterior nerve roots enter the posterior columns so that fibres at higher levels displace those from lower levels medially. |
| Kehrer-Adie syndrome (Adie's syndrome) |
| A neurological phenomenon in which one or both pupils is dilated and responds slowly or not at all to light and a near stimulus, accompanied by slow constriction and relaxation in the change from near to distant vision, and impaired accommodation. |
| Kiloh-Nevin syndrome I |
| A sequence of neurological disturbance seen in lesion of the anterior interosseous nerve (a motor branch of the median nerve). |
| Kiloh-Nevin syndrome III (Parsonage-Turner syndrome) |
| A now obsolete eponym once used to indicate many forms of cryptogenic neurologic atrophy of the shoulder and cervical plexus. |
| Klippel-Weil sign |
| A phenomenon characteristic of the spastic syndrome: Passive extension of a flexion contracture of the fingers results in involuntary flexion of the fingers and abduction of the thumb in pyramidal tract disease. |
| Klumpke's palsy (Dejerine-Klumpke's paralysis) |
| A syndrome with lesion of the lower arm plexus consisting of pain and paralysis and atrophy of the small muscles of the hand and forearm - area supplied by the ulnar nerve and the inner head of the median nerve. |
| Klumpke-Dejerine paralysis (Dejerine-Klumpke's paralysis) |
| A syndrome with lesion of the lower arm plexus consisting of pain and paralysis and atrophy of the small muscles of the hand and forearm - area supplied by the ulnar nerve and the inner head of the median nerve. |
| Klumpke-Dejerine paralysis (Dejerine-Klumpke's paralysis) |
| A syndrome with lesion of the lower arm plexus consisting of pain and paralysis and atrophy of the small muscles of the hand and forearm - area supplied by the ulnar nerve and the inner head of the median nerve. |
| Klumpke’s paralysis (Dejerine-Klumpke's paralysis) |
| A syndrome with lesion of the lower arm plexus consisting of pain and paralysis and atrophy of the small muscles of the hand and forearm - area supplied by the ulnar nerve and the inner head of the median nerve. |
| Klumpke’s syndrome (Dejerine-Klumpke's paralysis) |
| A syndrome with lesion of the lower arm plexus consisting of pain and paralysis and atrophy of the small muscles of the hand and forearm - area supplied by the ulnar nerve and the inner head of the median nerve. |
| Kozhevnikov's disease (Kozhevnikov's syndrome I) |
| A mild continuous epilepsia characterized by almost continuous, rhythmic muscular contractions affecting a limited part of the body. |
| Kozhevnikov's epilepsy (Kozhevnikov's syndrome I) |
| A mild continuous epilepsia characterized by almost continuous, rhythmic muscular contractions affecting a limited part of the body. |
| Kozhevnikov's syndrome I |
| A mild continuous epilepsia characterized by almost continuous, rhythmic muscular contractions affecting a limited part of the body. |
| Krause's corpuscles (Wilhelm Krause) |
| Nerve ending receptor. |
| Krause’s bulbs (Krause's corpuscles (Wilhelm Krause)) |
| Nerve ending receptor. |
| Krause’s end bulbs (Krause's corpuscles (Wilhelm Krause)) |
| Nerve ending receptor. |
| Kurt Mendel's syndrome |
| Diabète insipide associé è une paralysie du nerf pathétique.
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| Kussmaul-Landry syndrome (Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome) |
| The commonest form of acquired neuropathy, most frequently affecting young adults. Commences with progressive muscular weakness of extremities that may lead to paralysis. |
| Landouzy's ischias (Landouzy's syndrome) |
| Eponym used to indicate the secondary muscular atrophy caused by sciatica. |
| Landouzy's syndrome |
| Eponym used to indicate the secondary muscular atrophy caused by sciatica. |
| Landry's syndrome (Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome) |
| The commonest form of acquired neuropathy, most frequently affecting young adults. Commences with progressive muscular weakness of extremities that may lead to paralysis. |
| Landry-Guillain-Barré syndrome (Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome) |
| The commonest form of acquired neuropathy, most frequently affecting young adults. Commences with progressive muscular weakness of extremities that may lead to paralysis. |
| Landry-Kussmaul syndrome (Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome) |
| The commonest form of acquired neuropathy, most frequently affecting young adults. Commences with progressive muscular weakness of extremities that may lead to paralysis. |
| Landry’s paralysis (Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome) |
| The commonest form of acquired neuropathy, most frequently affecting young adults. Commences with progressive muscular weakness of extremities that may lead to paralysis. |
| Lange's syndrome II (Bruck-de Lange disease) |
| A congenital syndrome of muscular hypertrophy, extrapyramidal disorders, and mental deficiency. |
| Lannois-Gradenigo syndrome (Gradenigo's syndrome) |
| A syndrome characterised by ipsilateral paralysis of the abducens nerve (sixth cranial nerve) and other neurological symptoms. |
| Lasègue's sign |
| A sign frequently seen in lumbar root or sciatic nerve irritation. |
| Lasègue’s Dehnungszeichen (German) (Lasègue's sign) |
| A sign frequently seen in lumbar root or sciatic nerve irritation. |
| Lasègue’s Ischiaszeichen (German) (Lasègue's sign) |
| A sign frequently seen in lumbar root or sciatic nerve irritation. |
| Lasègue’s phenomenon (Lasègue's sign) |
| A sign frequently seen in lumbar root or sciatic nerve irritation. |
| Lasègue’s symptom (Lasègue's sign) |
| A sign frequently seen in lumbar root or sciatic nerve irritation. |
| Lazarevic's sign (Lasègue's sign) |
| A sign frequently seen in lumbar root or sciatic nerve irritation. |
| Léri's sign |
| A pyramidal sign, or joint reflex seen in spastic hemiplegia. |
| Léri’s phenomenon (Léri's sign) |
| A pyramidal sign, or joint reflex seen in spastic hemiplegia. |
| Léri’s reflex (Léri's sign) |
| A pyramidal sign, or joint reflex seen in spastic hemiplegia. |
| Levine-Critchley syndrome |
| Acanthocytosis with neurologic disease, choreoacanthocytosis, neuroacanthocytosis.
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| Lévy-Roussy syndrome (Roussy-Lévy disease) |
| A hereditary disease of the nervous system - spinocerebellar degeneration - with lower limb muscular atrophy, sensory ataxia, bilateral pes cavus, loss of deep reflexes and sometimes upgoing toes on examination of the plantar reflex. |
| Leyden's ataxia (Westphal-Leyden ataxia) |
| Acute ataxia with onset in childhood. |
| Leyden's oculomotor alternating paralysis (Weber's paralysis) |
| Partial or complete oculomotor paralysis and contralateral hemiplegia. |
| Leyden's paralysis I (Weber's paralysis) |
| Partial or complete oculomotor paralysis and contralateral hemiplegia. |
| Leyden's syndrome (Weber's paralysis) |
| Partial or complete oculomotor paralysis and contralateral hemiplegia. |
| Lhermitte's sign |
| Flexing of the neck produces electric shock-like sensations that extend down the spine and shoot into the limbs. |
| Lhermitte-Cornil-Quesnel syndrome |
| A slowly progressive pyramidopallidal degeneration. |
| Lhermitte-Delthil-Garnier syndrome (Lhermitte-Lévy syndrome) |
| A syndrome of slowly progressing paralysis after a stroke. |
| Lhermitte-Lévy syndrome |
| A syndrome of slowly progressing paralysis after a stroke. |
| Lhermittes-Trelles syndrome |
| A syndrome characterised by lymphoblastic infiltrations of the peripheral nervous system, associated with paresis and amyoptrophia. |
| Londe’s syndrome (juvenile form) (Duchenne's syndrome) |
| Nuclear amyotrophy resulting in chronic bulbar paralysis, which may represent early manifestations of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. |
| Lund-Huntington chorea (Huntington's chorea) |
| A rare disease of the central nervous system characterized by progressive dementia with grimacing, gesticulation, ataxic movements, finger twitching, dysarthria, speech disorders and other bizarre involuntary movements. |
| Lund-Huntington syndrome (Huntington's chorea) |
| A rare disease of the central nervous system characterized by progressive dementia with grimacing, gesticulation, ataxic movements, finger twitching, dysarthria, speech disorders and other bizarre involuntary movements. |
| Magendie’s law (Bell-Magendie law) |
| The anterior spinal nerve roots contain only motor fibres and posterior roots only sensory fibres. |
| Maladie de Bourneville (Bourneville-Pringle disease) |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Mann's syndrome |
| Brain contusion accompanied by generalised coordination disorders. |
| Marchiafava's disease (Marchiafava-Bignami syndrome) |
| A progressive neurological disease most frequently seen in middle-aged or elderly alcoholic males but also affecting some nonalcoholic subjects. |
| Marchiafava-Bignami syndrome |
| A progressive neurological disease most frequently seen in middle-aged or elderly alcoholic males but also affecting some nonalcoholic subjects. |
| Marchiafava’s syndrome (Marchiafava-Bignami syndrome) |
| A progressive neurological disease most frequently seen in middle-aged or elderly alcoholic males but also affecting some nonalcoholic subjects. |
| Marfan’s syndrome 2 (Dennie-Marfan syndrome) |
| Spastic paraplegia of the lower extremities and mental retardation in children with congenital syphilis. |
| Marie's crossed adduction reflex |
| Crossed, contralateral adductor reflex. |
| Marie-Foix manoeuvre and reflex |
| A manipulation for exciting a flexion reflex in all joints in the lower extremities, and a sign in upper motor neurone paralysis. |
| Marie-Strümpell encephalitis |
| Acute infantile hemiplegia. |
| Marie’s gekreutzte adduktionsreflexe (German). (Marie's crossed adduction reflex) |
| Crossed, contralateral adductor reflex. |
| Marinesco's hand |
| Cold blue oedematous hand with lividity of the skin seen in neurological lesions such as syringomyelia.
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| Marinesco's sign (Marinesco's hand) |
| Cold blue oedematous hand with lividity of the skin seen in neurological lesions such as syringomyelia.
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| Marinesco's succulent hand (Marinesco's hand) |
| Cold blue oedematous hand with lividity of the skin seen in neurological lesions such as syringomyelia.
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| Markus' syndrome (Adie's syndrome) |
| A neurological phenomenon in which one or both pupils is dilated and responds slowly or not at all to light and a near stimulus, accompanied by slow constriction and relaxation in the change from near to distant vision, and impaired accommodation. |
| Markus-Adie syndrome (Adie's syndrome) |
| A neurological phenomenon in which one or both pupils is dilated and responds slowly or not at all to light and a near stimulus, accompanied by slow constriction and relaxation in the change from near to distant vision, and impaired accommodation. |
| Merzbacher’s disease (Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease) |
| A form of sudanophilic leukodystrophy, or leukoencephalopathia, that usually affects only males. |
| Miller Fisher's syndrome |
| A disturbance thought to be a variant of the Guillain-Barré syndrome usually characterised by total external ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, and loss of tendon reflexes. |
| Mitchell's rest cure |
| Treatment for victims of nervous disorders, chiefly hysteria and neurasthenia. |
| Mitchell’s therapy (Mitchell's rest cure) |
| Treatment for victims of nervous disorders, chiefly hysteria and neurasthenia. |
| Mitchell’s treatment (Mitchell's rest cure) |
| Treatment for victims of nervous disorders, chiefly hysteria and neurasthenia. |
| Mona Lisa syndrome |
| Facial muscle contracture that develops after Bell’s palsy when the facial nerves has undergone partial wallerian degeneration and has regenerated. |
| Morton's foot (Morton's neuralgia (Thomas George Morton)) |
| A disease of the foot characterized by a sudden cramplike pain in the metatarsal area radiating to the 4th and 5th toe and sometimes to the calf of the leg. |
| Morton's metatarsalgia (Morton's neuralgia (Thomas George Morton)) |
| A disease of the foot characterized by a sudden cramplike pain in the metatarsal area radiating to the 4th and 5th toe and sometimes to the calf of the leg. |
| Morton's nerve entrapment (Morton's neuralgia (Thomas George Morton)) |
| A disease of the foot characterized by a sudden cramplike pain in the metatarsal area radiating to the 4th and 5th toe and sometimes to the calf of the leg. |
| Morton's neuralgia (Thomas George Morton) |
| A disease of the foot characterized by a sudden cramplike pain in the metatarsal area radiating to the 4th and 5th toe and sometimes to the calf of the leg. |
| Morton's neuroma (Morton's neuralgia (Thomas George Morton)) |
| A disease of the foot characterized by a sudden cramplike pain in the metatarsal area radiating to the 4th and 5th toe and sometimes to the calf of the leg. |
| Morton's neuroma (Thomas George Morton) |
| A neuromalike mass or enlarged nerve that is a benign, perineural fibrotic lesion of a common digital nerve. |
| Morton's syndrome (Morton's neuralgia (Thomas George Morton)) |
| A disease of the foot characterized by a sudden cramplike pain in the metatarsal area radiating to the 4th and 5th toe and sometimes to the calf of the leg. |
| Morton’s disease (Morton's neuralgia (Thomas George Morton)) |
| A disease of the foot characterized by a sudden cramplike pain in the metatarsal area radiating to the 4th and 5th toe and sometimes to the calf of the leg. |
| Mouchet's paralysis |
| A historical term for a paralysis of the cubital nerve following fractures of the external condyle of the humerus in childhood. |
| Mount-Reback syndrome (Huntington's chorea) |
| A rare disease of the central nervous system characterized by progressive dementia with grimacing, gesticulation, ataxic movements, finger twitching, dysarthria, speech disorders and other bizarre involuntary movements. |
| Mount’s syndrome (Huntington's chorea) |
| A rare disease of the central nervous system characterized by progressive dementia with grimacing, gesticulation, ataxic movements, finger twitching, dysarthria, speech disorders and other bizarre involuntary movements. |
| Möbius anomalad (Möbius' syndrome II) |
| A very rare syndrome characterized by congenital palsy of the external rectus and facial muscles, usually bilateral, associated with paralysis of the sixth and seventh nerves. |
| Möbius' syndrome I |
| A neurological disorder, characterized by paralysis of the oculomotor nerve accompanied with periodic migraine. |
| Möbius' syndrome II |
| A very rare syndrome characterized by congenital palsy of the external rectus and facial muscles, usually bilateral, associated with paralysis of the sixth and seventh nerves. |
| Möbius’ disease (Möbius' syndrome I) |
| A neurological disorder, characterized by paralysis of the oculomotor nerve accompanied with periodic migraine. |
| Nageotte's radicular nerve |
| Nageotte placed the initial lesion of tabes dorsalis in the root component of the radicular nerve, which is named the radicular nerve of Nageotte for him.
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| Nélaton's syndrome |
| A rare hereditary syndrome characterized by sensory disorders of the lower extremities, leading to perforating ulceration of the feet and destruction of the underlying bones. |
| Obersteiner-Redlich line (Redlich-Obersteiner zone) |
| The entrance point of the posterior spinal roots in the spinal marrow. |
| Ochsner's test |
| A test for median nerve injury distal to the ante-cubital fossa. |
| Oppenheim's disease |
| A rare congenital, noninherited but sometimes familial disorder, characterised by absence of muscular development with the lower extremities being the first involved, hypotonicity, and hyperflexibility. |
| Oppenheim's gait |
| Gait in which there is a wide swinging motion of the head, body, and extremities. |
| Oppenheim's reflex |
| A pyramidal sign. |
| Oppenheim's sign (Oppenheim's reflex) |
| A pyramidal sign. |
| Oppenheim's symptom (Oppenheim's reflex) |
| A pyramidal sign. |
| Oppenheim’s foot reflex (Oppenheim's reflex) |
| A pyramidal sign. |
| Orbeli's effect (Orbeli-Ginetsinski phenomenon (Leonid Abgarovich Orbeli)) |
| Antifatigue effect of sympathetic nerves. |
| Orbeli's phenomenon (Orbeli-Ginetsinski phenomenon (Leonid Abgarovich Orbeli)) |
| Antifatigue effect of sympathetic nerves. |
| Orbeli-Ginetsinski phenomenon (Leonid Abgarovich Orbeli) |
| Antifatigue effect of sympathetic nerves. |
| Pagon's syndrome |
| Congenital anaemia with ataxia, clonus, and positive Babinski sign. |
| Palizaeus-Merzbacher syndrome (infantile type) (Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease) |
| A form of sudanophilic leukodystrophy, or leukoencephalopathia, that usually affects only males. |
| Paralysie d'Albert Mouchet (French) (Mouchet's paralysis) |
| A historical term for a paralysis of the cubital nerve following fractures of the external condyle of the humerus in childhood. |
| Parkinson's crisis |
| Exaggeration of the characteristics of parkinsonism associated with acute anxiety.
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| Parkinson's disease |
| A degenerative disorder of the nervous system characterized by masklike facies, a fine, slowly spreading tremor, cogwheel rigidity, bradykinesia, and postural instability with a peculiar gait. |
| Parkinson's facies |
| The immobile, expressionless, masklike facial characteristic of parkinsonism. |
| Parkinson's sign (Parkinson's facies) |
| The immobile, expressionless, masklike facial characteristic of parkinsonism. |
| Parkinson's syndrome (Parkinson's disease) |
| A degenerative disorder of the nervous system characterized by masklike facies, a fine, slowly spreading tremor, cogwheel rigidity, bradykinesia, and postural instability with a peculiar gait. |
| Parkinsonism (Parkinson's disease) |
| A degenerative disorder of the nervous system characterized by masklike facies, a fine, slowly spreading tremor, cogwheel rigidity, bradykinesia, and postural instability with a peculiar gait. |
| Parrot’s disease (Wegner's disease) |
| Pseudoparalysis due to separation of orthochondritic epiphyses occurring in infants with congenital syphilis. |
| Parrot’s paralysis (Wegner's disease) |
| Pseudoparalysis due to separation of orthochondritic epiphyses occurring in infants with congenital syphilis. |
| Parrot’s pseudoparalysis (Wegner's disease) |
| Pseudoparalysis due to separation of orthochondritic epiphyses occurring in infants with congenital syphilis. |
| Parrot’s syphilitic osteochondritis (Wegner's disease) |
| Pseudoparalysis due to separation of orthochondritic epiphyses occurring in infants with congenital syphilis. |
| Parsonage-Turner syndrome |
| A now obsolete eponym once used to indicate many forms of cryptogenic neurologic atrophy of the shoulder and cervical plexus. |
| Partial Horner syndrome (Ræder's syndrome) |
| A neurological disease resembling the Horner syndrome.
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| Passow's syndrome |
| An association of Horner's syndrome with heterochromia iridis. |
| Pel's crises |
| Ocular crises in tabes dorsalis. |
| Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease |
| A form of sudanophilic leukodystrophy, or leukoencephalopathia, that usually affects only males. |
| Pel’s disease (Pel's crises) |
| Ocular crises in tabes dorsalis. |
| Pel’s syndrome (Pel's crises) |
| Ocular crises in tabes dorsalis. |
| Pick's disease (Arnold Pick) |
| A rare and fatal degenerative disease of the nervous system. Clinically there are major overlaps with Alzheimer's presenile dementia. |
| Pick-Alzheimer disease (misnomer) (Arnold Pick) (Pick's disease (Arnold Pick)) |
| A rare and fatal degenerative disease of the nervous system. Clinically there are major overlaps with Alzheimer's presenile dementia. |
| Pick’s syndrome (Arnold Pick) (Pick's disease (Arnold Pick)) |
| A rare and fatal degenerative disease of the nervous system. Clinically there are major overlaps with Alzheimer's presenile dementia. |
| Pilcz' reflex (Westphal-Pilcz sign) |
| Constriction of both pupils when an effort is made to close eyelids that are forcibly held apart. |
| Pilcz' sign (Westphal-Pilcz sign) |
| Constriction of both pupils when an effort is made to close eyelids that are forcibly held apart. |
| Piltz sign/reflex (Westphal-Pilcz sign) |
| Constriction of both pupils when an effort is made to close eyelids that are forcibly held apart. |
| Piltz-Westphal phenomenon (Westphal-Pilcz sign) |
| Constriction of both pupils when an effort is made to close eyelids that are forcibly held apart. |
| Poser’s syndrome (Hallervorden's syndrome) |
| A rather variable and aspecific disturbance of unknown aetiology marked by neurologic and mental symptoms and signs of progressive loss of vision and speech, then hearing, down to decerebration. |
| Pringle's adenoma sebaceum (Bourneville-Pringle disease) |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Pringle's disease (Bourneville-Pringle disease) |
| A syndrome of epilepsy, severe mental retardation associated with adenoma sebaceum of the face, cerebral cortical tubers and hamartomatous tumours of the heart and kidney. |
| Pseudo-Argyll Robertson pupil (Adie's syndrome) |
| A neurological phenomenon in which one or both pupils is dilated and responds slowly or not at all to light and a near stimulus, accompanied by slow constriction and relaxation in the change from near to distant vision, and impaired accommodation. |
| Putnam's acroparaesthesia (Schultze's acroparaesthesia) |
| A vasomotor disorder characterized by tingling, numbness, stiffness (acroparaesthesia), anaesthesia or pain in the upper extremity. |
| Putnam’s syndrome (Schultze's acroparaesthesia) |
| A vasomotor disorder characterized by tingling, numbness, stiffness (acroparaesthesia), anaesthesia or pain in the upper extremity. |
| Quinquaud's phenomenon or sign |
| A peculiar form of finger tremor with a sideways finger movement from the intercossei. |
| Ramsay Hunt's paralysis |
| A disturbance with symptoms resembling those of the adult form of parkinsonism, but less intense than in Parkinson’s disease. |
| Ramsay Hunt's syndrome II |
| Cephalic herpes zoster, cephalic zoster syndrome, geniculate ganglion syndrome, geniculate neuralgia, geniculate syndrome, herpes zoster articularis, herpes zoster oticus, herpes zoster syndrome.
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| Ramsay Hunt's syndrome III |
| Occupational compression neuritis of the deep palmar branch of the ulnar nerve. |
| Ramsay Hunt's zone |
| A delimitated skin area supplied by the ganglion geniculi of the N. Intermedius. |
| Rasmussen's disease (Rasmussen's encephalitis) |
| An extremely rare, progressive, central nervous system disorder. |
| Rasmussen's encephalitis |
| An extremely rare, progressive, central nervous system disorder. |
| Rasmussen's syndrome (Rasmussen's encephalitis) |
| An extremely rare, progressive, central nervous system disorder. |
| Recklinghausen syndrome (Recklinghausen's disease) |
| Inheritable disease characterized by café au lait spots combined with multiple peripheral nerve tumours and a variety of others dysplastic abnormalities of the skin, nervous system, bones, endocrine organs and blood vessels. |
| Recklinghausen's disease |
| Inheritable disease characterized by café au lait spots combined with multiple peripheral nerve tumours and a variety of others dysplastic abnormalities of the skin, nervous system, bones, endocrine organs and blood vessels. |
| Recklinghausen's phakomatosis (Recklinghausen's disease) |
| Inheritable disease characterized by café au lait spots combined with multiple peripheral nerve tumours and a variety of others dysplastic abnormalities of the skin, nervous system, bones, endocrine organs and blood vessels. |
| Recklinhausen neurofibromatosis (Recklinghausen's disease) |
| Inheritable disease characterized by café au lait spots combined with multiple peripheral nerve tumours and a variety of others dysplastic abnormalities of the skin, nervous system, bones, endocrine organs and blood vessels. |
| Redlich-Obersteiner zone |
| The entrance point of the posterior spinal roots in the spinal marrow. |
| Remak's axis cylinder |
| The axis cylinder which is the conducting part of a nerve.
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| Remak's band |
| The nonmedullated nerve fibres.
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| Remak's fibres |
| Non-myelinated peripheral nerve fibres. |
| Remak's ganglion |
| Nerve ganglion, a group of nerve cells where the coronary sinus enters the right atrium.
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| Rendu's tremor |
| Nervous tremor initiated or exaggerated by voluntary movement.
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| Riddoch's syndrome II |
| A complex reflex phenomenon elicited by noxic stimuli below the area of a complete transection of the medulla spinalis. |
| Roberton’s syndrome (Argyll Robertson's syndrome) |
| A frequent symptom of neurosyphilis, especially tabes dorsalis, and other diseases of the central nervous system, in which the pupil is small and responds slowly or not at all to light, but reaction to accommodation and convergence is retained. |
| Rosen's neuralgia |
| Neuralgia of the chorda tympani. |
| Rosenbach-Semon law |
| Lesions of the anterior horn cells on anterior spinal nerve trunks result in a paralysis of extensor before flexor muscles, and that the extensors are also the last to recover after paralysis. |
| Rossolimo's anal reflex |
| An anal reflex described in Neurologisches Zentralblatt, Leipzig, 1891, 10: 557.
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| Rossolimo's finger sign |
| Reflectory flexion of the fourth finger and the thumb by a light stroke of the reflex hammer on the volar end of the two fingers. |
| Rossolimo's neuritis |
| Recurrent form of progressive hypertrophic intersitialis neuritis of children. |
| Rossolimo's reflex |
| Percussion of plantar surface of the 2nd to 5th toes cause flexion which is exaggerated greatly in pyramidal tract lesions. |
| Roth's disease (Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia) |
| A syndrome marked by paraesthesia, pain, disturbance of sensation in the outer surface of the thigh in the region supplied by the external cutaneous femoral nerve often with trophic disturbances with hyperhydrosis and hairlessness. |
| Roth's meralgia (Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia) |
| A syndrome marked by paraesthesia, pain, disturbance of sensation in the outer surface of the thigh in the region supplied by the external cutaneous femoral nerve often with trophic disturbances with hyperhydrosis and hairlessness. |
| Roth's syndrome (Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia) |
| A syndrome marked by paraesthesia, pain, disturbance of sensation in the outer surface of the thigh in the region supplied by the external cutaneous femoral nerve often with trophic disturbances with hyperhydrosis and hairlessness. |
| Roth-Bernhardt syndrome (Bernhardt-Roth paraesthesia) |
| A syndrome marked by paraesthesia, pain, disturbance of sensation in the outer surface of the thigh in the region supplied by the external cutaneous femoral nerve often with trophic disturbances with hyperhydrosis and hairlessness. |
| Roussy-Cornil syndrome |
| A disease of the nervous system characterized by degeneration of the muscles innervated by the affected nerves, and a variety of other neurological symptoms. |
| Roussy-Lévy disease |
| A hereditary disease of the nervous system - spinocerebellar degeneration - with lower limb muscular atrophy, sensory ataxia, bilateral pes cavus, loss of deep reflexes and sometimes upgoing toes on examination of the plantar reflex. |
| Ræder's syndrome |
| A neurological disease resembling the Horner syndrome.
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| Ræder’s paratrigeminal syndrome (Ræder's syndrome) |
| A neurological disease resembling the Horner syndrome.
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| Saenger’s syndrome (Adie's syndrome) |
| A neurological phenomenon in which one or both pupils is dilated and responds slowly or not at all to light and a near stimulus, accompanied by slow constriction and relaxation in the change from near to distant vision, and impaired accommodation. |
| Schilder-Foix disease |
| A disease of the nervous system characterized by nonprogressive sclerotic lesions of the white matter of the cerebral hemispheres. |
| Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome |
| A congenital syndrome of anomalies affecting multiple body systems, especially the skin, skeleton, eyes, and central nervous system. |
| Schimmelpenning’s syndrome (Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome) |
| A congenital syndrome of anomalies affecting multiple body systems, especially the skin, skeleton, eyes, and central nervous system. |
| Schmincke tumor-unilateral cranial paralysis syndrome (Guillain-Alajouanine-Garcin syndrome) |
| A rare syndrome of unilateral paralysis of all or nearly all cranial nerves in tumours of the nasopharynx and base of the skull without affecting the brain itself. |
| Schrötter's chorea |
| A course of chorea affecting the muscles of the larynx. |
| Schultze's acroparaesthesia |
| A vasomotor disorder characterized by tingling, numbness, stiffness (acroparaesthesia), anaesthesia or pain in the upper extremity. |
| Schultze’s syndrome (Schultze's acroparaesthesia) |
| A vasomotor disorder characterized by tingling, numbness, stiffness (acroparaesthesia), anaesthesia or pain in the upper extremity. |
| Schäffer's reflex |
| Dorsiflexion of great toe and flexion of foot on pinching of the middle portion of the Achilles tendon. |
| Schäffer’s syndrome (Schäffer's reflex) |
| Dorsiflexion of great toe and flexion of foot on pinching of the middle portion of the Achilles tendon. |
| Seitelberger's disease II |
| A rare familial form of demyalinating disease with early onset and absence of stainable myelin. |
| Seitelberger’s neuroaxonal dystrophy (Seitelberger's disease II) |
| A rare familial form of demyalinating disease with early onset and absence of stainable myelin. |
| Semon's law (Rosenbach-Semon law) |
| Lesions of the anterior horn cells on anterior spinal nerve trunks result in a paralysis of extensor before flexor muscles, and that the extensors are also the last to recover after paralysis. |
| Semon-Rosenbach rule (Rosenbach-Semon law) |
| Lesions of the anterior horn cells on anterior spinal nerve trunks result in a paralysis of extensor before flexor muscles, and that the extensors are also the last to recover after paralysis. |
| Sensory neuropathy type Denny-Brown (Denny-Brown's syndrome II) |
| Bronchogenic carcinoma associated with primary degeneration of the dorsal root ganglion cells with primary degeneration of the muscles.
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| Sherrington's law I |
| Every posterior spinal nerve root supplies a particular area of the skin. |
| Sherrington's law II |
| The law of reciprocal innervation. |
| Shy-Drager syndrome |
| A progressive disorder of the autonomic nervous system. |
| Sicard’s syndrome I (Collet-Sicard syndrome) |
| Collective term comprising infectious disorders associated with encephalitis epidemica. |
| Smith-Thévenard syndrome (Nélaton's syndrome) |
| A rare hereditary syndrome characterized by sensory disorders of the lower extremities, leading to perforating ulceration of the feet and destruction of the underlying bones. |
| Solomon's syndrome (Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome) |
| A congenital syndrome of anomalies affecting multiple body systems, especially the skin, skeleton, eyes, and central nervous system. |
| Solomon-Fretzin-Dewald syndrome (Schimmelpenning-Feuerstein-Mims syndrome) |
| A congenital syndrome of anomalies affecting multiple body systems, especially the skin, skeleton, eyes, and central nervous system. |
| Souques' phenomenon or sign |
| Fan-shaped finger extension on the involved side of a hemiplegic patient when the extremity is raised to a position above 90º of shoulder flexion or abduction. |
| Souques's triad |
| Neurological signs |
| Spatz-Stiefler reaction |
| A test for a fast anatomical diagnosis of progressive paralysis. |
| Spielmeyer type PMD (Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease) |
| A form of sudanophilic leukodystrophy, or leukoencephalopathia, that usually affects only males. |
| Spiller's syndrome |
| A syndrome characterized by sensory disturbances, localized or diffuse pain in the back, chest, or legs, which may be followed by symptomatic weakness in the knees, and transverse myelitis. |
| St. Vitus’ dance (Sydenham's chorea) |
| An infectious disease of the central nervous system, appearing after a streptococcal infection, with subsequent rheumatic fever, characterised by involuntary purposeless contractions of the muscles of the trunk and extremities. |
| Stark-Kaeser syndrome (Brossard-Kaeser syndrome) |
| A rare form of inheritable progressive spinal muscular atrophy with system degeneration of the motor anterior horn cells, affecting both sexes, involving mainly the scapular and peroneal muscles. |
| Stewart-Holmes syndrome |
| Epileptic fits, manifested by jerking movements of one arm. |
| Strümpell's disease (Erb-Charcot paralysis) |
| A rare syndrome consisting of spinal syphilis with paraesthesia, spastic weakness, and tiredness of the legs associated with pain, sphincter disorders, exaggerated deep reflexes, muscle atrophy, sensory disorders, and paraplegia. |
| Strümpell's familial paraplegia (Strümpell-Lorrain disease) |
| A familial form of paraplegia characterized by spasticity – hypertonicity and weakness - limited mainly to the lower extremities. |
| Strümpell's sign IV |
| A phenomenon occurring in spastic syndrome. |
| Strümpell-Lorrain disease |
| A familial form of paraplegia characterized by spasticity – hypertonicity and weakness - limited mainly to the lower extremities. |
| Strümpell-Lorrain familial spasmodic paraplegia (Strümpell-Lorrain disease) |
| A familial form of paraplegia characterized by spasticity – hypertonicity and weakness - limited mainly to the lower extremities. |
| Strümpell-Lorrain type (Strümpell-Lorrain disease) |
| A familial form of paraplegia characterized by spasticity – hypertonicity and weakness - limited mainly to the lower extremities. |
| Strümpell’s syndrome (Erb-Charcot paralysis) |
| A rare syndrome consisting of spinal syphilis with paraesthesia, spastic weakness, and tiredness of the legs associated with pain, sphincter disorders, exaggerated deep reflexes, muscle atrophy, sensory disorders, and paraplegia. |
| Sydenham's chorea |
| An infectious disease of the central nervous system, appearing after a streptococcal infection, with subsequent rheumatic fever, characterised by involuntary purposeless contractions of the muscles of the trunk and extremities. |
| Sydenham’s disease (Sydenham's chorea) |
| An infectious disease of the central nervous system, appearing after a streptococcal infection, with subsequent rheumatic fever, characterised by involuntary purposeless contractions of the muscles of the trunk and extremities. |
| Sydenham’s syndrome (Sydenham's chorea) |
| An infectious disease of the central nervous system, appearing after a streptococcal infection, with subsequent rheumatic fever, characterised by involuntary purposeless contractions of the muscles of the trunk and extremities. |
| Symonds-Shaw syndrome (Roussy-Lévy disease) |
| A hereditary disease of the nervous system - spinocerebellar degeneration - with lower limb muscular atrophy, sensory ataxia, bilateral pes cavus, loss of deep reflexes and sometimes upgoing toes on examination of the plantar reflex. |
| Syndrome de Kurt Mendel (Kurt Mendel's syndrome) |
| Diabète insipide associé è une paralysie du nerf pathétique.
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| Thévenard's disease II (Nélaton's syndrome) |
| A rare hereditary syndrome characterized by sensory disorders of the lower extremities, leading to perforating ulceration of the feet and destruction of the underlying bones. |
| Thévenard's syndrome (Nélaton's syndrome) |
| A rare hereditary syndrome characterized by sensory disorders of the lower extremities, leading to perforating ulceration of the feet and destruction of the underlying bones. |
| Thiébaut's syndrome (Van Bogaert-Scherer-Epstein syndrome) |
| A familial disorder of metabolism. |
| Tinel’s syndrome (Parsonage-Turner syndrome) |
| A now obsolete eponym once used to indicate many forms of cryptogenic neurologic atrophy of the shoulder and cervical plexus. |
| Tourette’s syndrome (misnomer) (Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome) |
| A rare psychoneurological disorder with onset in childhood, usually at the age of 7 to 10 years, characterised by echolalia, pallilalia and coprolalia, a want for touch, and stottering. |
| Van Bogaert-Scherer-Epstein syndrome |
| A familial disorder of metabolism. |
| van-Bogaert-Bertrand spongy degeneration syndrome (Canavan's disease) |
| A progressive, degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterised by spongy changes in the white matter. |
| van-Bogaert-Bertrand syndrome (Canavan's disease) |
| A progressive, degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterised by spongy changes in the white matter. |
| Viesseaux-Wallenberg syndrome (Wallenberg's syndrome) |
| A complex of symptoms caused by occlusion of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery, resulting in sensory and sympathetic disturbances, cerebellar and pyramidal tract signs, etc. |
| Villaret's syndrome |
| A syndrome of ipsilateral paralysis of the ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and sometimes the seventh cranial nerves and the cervical sympathetic fibers. |
| Von Baeyer's sign |
| A phenomenon particularly seen in destroyed sense of depth in tabes dorsalis. |
| von Leyden’s syndrome (Weber's paralysis) |
| Partial or complete oculomotor paralysis and contralateral hemiplegia. |
| von Recklinghausen neuropathy (Recklinghausen's disease) |
| Inheritable disease characterized by café au lait spots combined with multiple peripheral nerve tumours and a variety of others dysplastic abnormalities of the skin, nervous system, bones, endocrine organs and blood vessels. |
| von Recklinghausen's disease (Recklinghausen's disease) |
| Inheritable disease characterized by café au lait spots combined with multiple peripheral nerve tumours and a variety of others dysplastic abnormalities of the skin, nervous system, bones, endocrine organs and blood vessels. |
| von Strümpell’s disease (Erb-Charcot paralysis) |
| A rare syndrome consisting of spinal syphilis with paraesthesia, spastic weakness, and tiredness of the legs associated with pain, sphincter disorders, exaggerated deep reflexes, muscle atrophy, sensory disorders, and paraplegia. |
| von Strümpell’s pronation phenomenon (Strümpell's sign IV) |
| A phenomenon occurring in spastic syndrome. |
| Vulpian's atrophy (Vulpian-Bernhardt spinal muscular atrophy) |
| Slowly progrediating neurogenic muscular atrophy. |
| Vulpian-Bernhardt spinal muscular atrophy |
| Slowly progrediating neurogenic muscular atrophy. |
| Vulpian-Bernhardt syndrome (Vulpian-Bernhardt spinal muscular atrophy) |
| Slowly progrediating neurogenic muscular atrophy. |
| Vulpian-Heidenhain-Sherrington phenomenon |
| Slow contraction of denervated skeletal muscle by stimulating autonomic cholinergic fibres innervating its blood vessels.
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| Waldeyer's neuron |
| The nerve cell and its processes.
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| Wallenberg's syndrome |
| A complex of symptoms caused by occlusion of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery, resulting in sensory and sympathetic disturbances, cerebellar and pyramidal tract signs, etc. |
| Wallenberg-Foix syndrome (Wallenberg's syndrome) |
| A complex of symptoms caused by occlusion of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery, resulting in sensory and sympathetic disturbances, cerebellar and pyramidal tract signs, etc. |
| Waller's law |
| When nerve fibres are cut the distal portions of the fibre degenerate.
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| Waller's method |
| Use of the changes undergone by the distal portion after sectioning (Wallerian degeneration) to trace the pathway of a nerve fibre.
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| Wallerian degeneration |
| Degeneration of the distal segment of a peripheral nerve fibre (axon) that has been severed from its nutritive centres (cell body), without local inflammation. |
| Wallerian method (Waller's method) |
| Use of the changes undergone by the distal portion after sectioning (Wallerian degeneration) to trace the pathway of a nerve fibre.
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| Wartenberg's disease I (Schultze's acroparaesthesia) |
| A vasomotor disorder characterized by tingling, numbness, stiffness (acroparaesthesia), anaesthesia or pain in the upper extremity. |
| Wartenberg's disease II |
| A sensitive polyneuropathy without symptoms of motor loss, involving the superficial branch of the radial nerve.
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| Wartenberg's sign |
| Neurological sign |
| Wartenberg's syndrome |
| Radial sensory nerve entrapment causing significant pain in the lower 1/3rd of the forearm. |
| Wartenberg's syndrome (Wartenberg's disease II) |
| A sensitive polyneuropathy without symptoms of motor loss, involving the superficial branch of the radial nerve.
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| Weber's paralysis |
| Partial or complete oculomotor paralysis and contralateral hemiplegia. |
| Weber's symptom (Weber's paralysis) |
| Partial or complete oculomotor paralysis and contralateral hemiplegia. |
| Weber's syndrome (Weber's paralysis) |
| Partial or complete oculomotor paralysis and contralateral hemiplegia. |
| Weber-Gubler syndrome (Weber's paralysis) |
| Partial or complete oculomotor paralysis and contralateral hemiplegia. |
| Weber-Leyden syndrome (Weber's paralysis) |
| Partial or complete oculomotor paralysis and contralateral hemiplegia. |
| Weber-von Leyden syndrome (Weber's paralysis) |
| Partial or complete oculomotor paralysis and contralateral hemiplegia. |
| Wegner's disease |
| Pseudoparalysis due to separation of orthochondritic epiphyses occurring in infants with congenital syphilis. |
| Wegner’s osteochondritis (Wegner's disease) |
| Pseudoparalysis due to separation of orthochondritic epiphyses occurring in infants with congenital syphilis. |
| Weill's syndrome |
| French description only: Hémi-hyperesthésie neuro-musculaire dans la tuberculose pulmonaire. |
| Weill-Reys syndrome (Adie's syndrome) |
| A neurological phenomenon in which one or both pupils is dilated and responds slowly or not at all to light and a near stimulus, accompanied by slow constriction and relaxation in the change from near to distant vision, and impaired accommodation. |
| Weill-Reys syndrome |
| Writers disagree whether the neurological features of this syndrome are similar to those of Adie's and that the two eponyms should be used synonymously. |
| Weill-Reys-Adie syndrome (Adie's syndrome) |
| A neurological phenomenon in which one or both pupils is dilated and responds slowly or not at all to light and a near stimulus, accompanied by slow constriction and relaxation in the change from near to distant vision, and impaired accommodation. |
| Weill’s syndrome (Adie's syndrome) |
| A neurological phenomenon in which one or both pupils is dilated and responds slowly or not at all to light and a near stimulus, accompanied by slow constriction and relaxation in the change from near to distant vision, and impaired accommodation. |
| Werdnig's disease (Werdnig-Hoffmann syndrome (Johann Hoffmann)) |
| An infantile familial form of progressive spinal muscular atrophy resulting from degeneration of the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord. |
| Werdnig-Hoffmann atrophy, disease or paralysis. (Werdnig-Hoffmann syndrome (Johann Hoffmann)) |
| An infantile familial form of progressive spinal muscular atrophy resulting from degeneration of the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord. |
| Werdnig-Hoffmann syndrome (Johann Hoffmann) |
| An infantile familial form of progressive spinal muscular atrophy resulting from degeneration of the anterior horn cells of the spinal cord. |
| Wernicke-Mann hemiplegia |
| A posture anomaly with partial hemiplegia of the extremities characterized by typical posture and gait disorders. |
| Wernicke-Mann paralysis (Wernicke-Mann hemiplegia) |
| A posture anomaly with partial hemiplegia of the extremities characterized by typical posture and gait disorders. |
| Wernicke-Mann symptom complex (Wernicke-Mann hemiplegia) |
| A posture anomaly with partial hemiplegia of the extremities characterized by typical posture and gait disorders. |
| Wernicke-Mann syndrome (Wernicke-Mann hemiplegia) |
| A posture anomaly with partial hemiplegia of the extremities characterized by typical posture and gait disorders. |
| Westphal's ataxia (Westphal-Leyden ataxia) |
| Acute ataxia with onset in childhood. |
| Westphal's phenomenon II |
| In passive dorsal flexion of the foot this remains fixed in dorsal flexation. |
| Westphal's sign (Westphal's phenomenon II) |
| In passive dorsal flexion of the foot this remains fixed in dorsal flexation. |
| Westphal's syndrome |
| A familial form of intermittent hypocalcaemic paralysis. |
| Westphal-Edinger nucleus (Edinger-Westphal nucleus) |
| The accessory nucleus of the 3rd oculomotor nerve. |
| Westphal-Leyden ataxia |
| Acute ataxia with onset in childhood. |
| Westphal-Pilcz sign |
| Constriction of both pupils when an effort is made to close eyelids that are forcibly held apart. |
| Westphal-Piltz syndrome (Westphal-Pilcz sign) |
| Constriction of both pupils when an effort is made to close eyelids that are forcibly held apart. |
| Westphals paradoxes Tibialisphänomen (German) (Westphal's phenomenon II) |
| In passive dorsal flexion of the foot this remains fixed in dorsal flexation. |
| Westphal’s disease (Westphal's syndrome) |
| A familial form of intermittent hypocalcaemic paralysis. |
| Westphal’s neurosis (Westphal's syndrome) |
| A familial form of intermittent hypocalcaemic paralysis. |
| Westphal’s phenomenon or sign (Erb-Westphal symptom) |
| The most important reflex anomaly seen in tabes dorsalis. |
| Willige-Hunt syndrome (Ramsay Hunt's paralysis) |
| A disturbance with symptoms resembling those of the adult form of parkinsonism, but less intense than in Parkinson’s disease. |
| Willis' nerve |
| The ophthalmic branch of the fifth cranial nerve.
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| Wilson's pronator sign |
| Extension of the arms above the head will result in the palms facing outward in Sydenham chorea due to pronation of the forearms.
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| Wilson's sign |
| Eccentric pupil in neoencephalic disease.
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| Wittmaack-Ekbom sequence (Wittmaack-Ekbom syndrome) |
| An unpleasant creeping sensation in the lower limbs, when the patient is at rest, inducing an intolerable restlessness and a desire to move the legs to relieve it. |
| Wittmaack-Ekbom syndrome |
| An unpleasant creeping sensation in the lower limbs, when the patient is at rest, inducing an intolerable restlessness and a desire to move the legs to relieve it. |
| Zenker's paralysis |
| Peroneal nerve palsy. |
| Zuelzer’s syndrome (Cooper's testis) |
| Neuralgia of the testicles. |
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