See Also: Pool-Schlesinger sign(medicine)
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Schlesinger(medicine)
Schlesinger's sign(medicine)
Schlesinger (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier), and Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier), Jr.(encyclopedia)
Schlesinger, John (Richard)(encyclopedia)
nitro-(dictionary)
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Nitro iv(health)

Pool-Schlesinger sign (medicine) and Nitro- (medicine)


Pool-Schlesinger sign (medicine)


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Pool's phenomenon


In tetany, spasm both of the extensor muscles of the knee and of the calf muscles when the extended leg is flexed at the hip.

Synonym: leg phenomenon, Pool-Schlesinger sign, Schlesinger's sign.

In tetany, contraction of the arm muscles following the stretching of the brachial plexus by elevation of the arm above the head with the forearm extended, resembles the contraction resulting from stimulation of the ulnar nerve.

Synonym: arm phenomenon.


Nitro- (medicine)


nitro-


1. <prefix> A combining form or an adjective denoting the presence of niter.

2. <chemistry> A combining form (used also adjectively) designating certain compounds of nitrogen or of its acids, as nitrohydrochloric, nitrocalcite; also, designating the group or radical NO2, or its compounds, as nitrobenzene. Nitro group, the radical NO2.

Synonym: nitroxyl.