patellar reflex
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of patellar reflex
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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From Time Magazine Archive
Persons using these preparations may suffer from catarrhal symptoms, rashes on the neck, ears, and face, thirst, nausea, pain in stomach, vomiting, headache, perhaps peripheral neuritis and loss of patellar reflex.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison ) Robertson
Facilitation of the patellar reflex or "knee jerk".
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth
The patient suffers severely from neuritis, and there may be early loss of patellar reflex.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison ) Robertson
While the reflexes were being tested he volunteered the information that his left patellar reflex was very much stronger than the right.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck
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