jaw jerk

She saw his jaw jerk as he glanced down at the bauble on her finger.

Tests examining jaw jerk and gag reflex can also be performed.

The jaw jerk is normal or absent.

Symptoms are anarthria, drooling, trouble talking, jaw jerks and general weakness in the face.

Although jaw jerk may be brisk in older subjects, there is no speech disturbance or difficulty of swallowing.

The jaw jerk reflex is an example.

However in individuals with upper motor neuron lesions the jaw jerk reflex can be quite pronounced.

The jaw jerk reflex can be classified as a dynamic stretch reflex.

Artilo spoke a few terse words; Reith could see the corded muscles at the back of his jaw jerk as he spoke.

The jaw jerk reflex or the masseter reflex is a stretch reflex used to test the status of a patient's trigeminal nerve (CN V).

Instead, neurons of this nucleus are pseudounipolar cells receiving proprioceptive information from the mandible, and sending projections to the motor trigeminal nucleus to mediate monosynaptic jaw jerk reflexes.

Charles Edward Beevor (12 June 1854 - 5 December 1908) was an English neurologist and anatomist who described Beevor's sign, the Jaw jerk reflex, and the area of the brain supplied by the anterior choroidal artery.