Queckenstedt sign (phenomenon test)

Queckenstedt sign (phenomenon test)
Queck·en·stedt sign (phenomenon, test) (kwekґən-shtet″) [Hans Heinrich Georg Queckenstedt, German physician, 1876–1918] see under sign.

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