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(medicine) In meningeal irritation, with the patient lying face up and the thigh flexed at the hip, the pain and spasm of the hamstring muscles when an attempt is made to completely extend the leg at the knee.
An indication of meningitis in which complete extension of the leg on the thigh is impossible when the individual lies on the back and flexes the thigh at a right angle to the axis of the trunk.
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
symptom of meningitis; patient cannot extend the leg at the knee when the thigh is flexed because of stiffness in the hamstrings
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