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Kernig's sign

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Noun1.Kernig's sign - symptom of meningitis; patient cannot extend the leg at the knee when the thigh is flexed because of stiffness in the hamstrings
symptom - (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease
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including lifelong otorrhea, profuse watery discharge, glucose and protein in ear fluid, drowsiness, headache, fever, disorientation, seizures, Kernig's sign, papilledema, meningitis, abscesses (mastoid, cerebellar, and Bezold's), sigmoid sinus thrombosis, otitic hydrocephalus, cholesteatoma, and fistulas (via the sinus plate, dura, round and oval windows, and horizontal and superior semicircular canals).
Cerebral complications of ear disease by Gordon, A. G.; Bhat K., Vikram / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
Thus, the diagnosis of LRI should have been suspected and ruled out with other confirmative tests (eg, Kernig's sign, Milgram's test, or Naffziger's test), or the patient could have been questioned regarding any radiating pain during straining, coughing, or sneezing.
Correspondence by Southern Medical Journal
17) Sometimes the classical Kernig's sign is absent.
Delayed Diagnosis of Intracranial Aneurysms: Confounding Factors in ... by Baskaya, Mustafa K. / Southern Medical Journal
 
 
 
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