- Holmes degeneration phenomenon (sign)
- (hōmz) [Sir Gordon Morgan Holmes, Irish neurologist, 1876–1965] see under degeneration, and see rebound phenomenon, under phenomenon.
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Holmes degeneration phenomenon (sign)
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