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KERNIG'S SIGN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Symptom of meningitis; patient cannot extend the leg at the knee when the thigh is flexed because of stiffness in the hamstrings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Kernig's sign" is a kind of...):
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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