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cogwheel rigidity — rigidity of a muscle that gives way in a series of little jerks upon being passively stretched, analogous to the ratcheting movement when a spring loaded rod drops into the successive notches of a cog. Called also cogwheel phenomenon or sign and… … Medical dictionary
Negro sign — cogwheel rigidity … Medical dictionary
Negro phenomenon (sign) — Ne·gro phenomenon (sign) (naґgro) [Camillo Negro, Italian neurologist, 1861–1927] see cogwheel rigidity, under rigidity … Medical dictionary
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