patellar reflex
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From Time Magazine Archive
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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 Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )
The left plantar reflex was absent, the right slight, the left patellar reflex was abnormally brisk.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry
The patient suffers severely from neuritis, and there may be early loss of patellar reflex.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )
Facilitation of the patellar reflex or "knee jerk".
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.
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