Tag: Semiotics

  • Semiotics motility

    Semiotics motility

    * The percussion of the muscle belly is followed by a direct response of the fibers to their mechanical stimulation. This idiomusculaire answer is not a reflex; it disappears early in primitive muscle diseases, where it contrasts with the conservation of the tendon reflexes. * The myotonia is an abnormal relaxation (for anomaly repolarisa-tion); muscle…

  • Semiotics of Sensitivity

    Semiotics of Sensitivity

    1- lesions of the spinal cord: A- Syndrome cordonale post: * Paresthesia; Lhermitte’s sign (shock sensation-clenchée by flexing the neck) * Disorders discriminative sensitivity (position sense); astereognosis * Ataxic disorders B- syringomyelic Syndrome: * Responsible lesion is in the gray matter intramedullary * Achievement dissociated sensitivity on thermal and painful sensitivities and respecting the tactility…