Holmes rebound phenomenon

noun

A sign of cerebellar disease characterized by certain abnormal movements in the patient's arm.

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Meanings

nounHolmes rebound phenomenon (plural Holmes rebound phenomena)

plural Holmes rebound phenomena

  1. A sign of cerebellar disease characterized by certain abnormal movements in the patient's arm.

Origin

First described by Gordon Morgan Holmes and Thomas Grainger Stewart in a paper published in 1904, though it was not named until a 1917 paper published by Holmes.

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