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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An extension of the great toe, sometimes with fanning of the other toes, in response to stroking of the sole of the foot. It is a normal reflex in infants, but it is usually associated with a disturbance of the pyramidal tract in children and adults.
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- noun medicine An abnormal plantar reflex in which the
hallux moves upwards, indicative ofmotor neuron damage.
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- noun extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front; normal in infants under the age of two years but a sign of brain or spinal cord injury in older persons
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Joseph François Felix Babinski, (1857–1932), French neurologist.]
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After Joseph Babinski (1857–1932), French neurologist.
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