neck flexion

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• Flexion — In anatomy, flexion is a position that is made possible by the joint angle decreasing. The skeletal (bones, cartilage, and ligaments) and muscular (muscles and tendons) systems work together to move the joint into a flexed position. For example… …   Wikipedia

• Table of muscles of the human body: Neck — Scheme of muscles of neck (left side, platysma muscle dissected) Contents 1 …   Wikipedia

• Head and neck anatomy — focuses on the structures of the head and neck of the human body, including the brain, bones, muscles, blood vessels, nerves, glands, nose, mouth, teeth, tongue, and throat. It is an area frequently studied in depth by surgeons, dentists, dental… …   Wikipedia

• Magnus and de Kleijn neck reflexes — extension of both ipsilateral limbs, or one, or part of a limb, and increase of tonus on the side to which the chin is turned when the head is rotated to the side, and flexion with loss of tonus on the side to which the occiput points; a sign of… …   Medical dictionary

• tonic neck reflex — a reflex in the newborn consisting of extension of the upper limb and sometimes the lower limb on the side to which the head is forcibly turned, with flexion of the contralateral limbs; cf. Magnus and de Kleijn neck r s …   Medical dictionary

• swan neck splint — a dynamic type of hand splint designed to limit or correct swan neck deformity by restricting extension of the proximal interphalangeal joints while permitting full flexion …   Medical dictionary

• Myotome — Scheme showing the manner in which each vertebral centrum is developed from portions of two adjacent segments. (Myotome labeled in upper right.) …   Wikipedia

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• rigidity — 1. Stiffness or inflexibility. SYN: rigor (1). 2. In psychiatry and clinical psychology, an aspect of personality characterized by an individual s resistance to change. 3. In neurology, one type of increase in …   Medical dictionary

• NEFERT — (Neck Flexion Rotation Test) ist ein im Jahr 1998 vom deutschen Neurootologen Claus Frenz Claussen entwickeltes medizinisches Untersuchungsverfahren. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Nutzen 2 Methode 3 Literatur 4 …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Medizinische Abkürzungen — Dies ist eine Liste der Abkürzungen und Akronyme, die in der klinischen Medizin verwendet werden. Anatomische Akronyme werden von den Lemmata Nomenklatur (Anatomie) sowie Lage und Richtungsbezeichnungen abgedeckt. weitere Links zu medizinischen… …   Deutsch Wikipedia