Woltman sign of myxedema: Slowness of both the contraction and the relaxation of muscles in hypothyroid patients, best seen as the “hung-up” ankle jerk and occurring because of mechanical factors and slowness of contraction time, as in myotonia and pseudomyotonia
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Henry Woltman (1889 - 1964) was an American neurologist. Eponym: Woltman sign of myxedema (1924/1956) published by Chaney
Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud (1796 - 1881) was a French physician.
Biography Born 2 September 1888, Munich Died 27 January 1969 Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Controversies References Biography Archiv für Psychiatrie und Zeitscrift für Neurologie 1965;207:165–67
Description Rare autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder associated with iron accumulation in the brain nuclei and characterized by progressive extrapyramidal dysfunction and dementia. by dystonia, parkinsonism, and iron accumulation in the brain History Associated Persons Julius Hallervorden (1882–1965) Hugo Spatz (1888…
Katherine Olga Berg Canadian physical therapist. Berg Balance Scale (1989)
Gustave Roussy (1874 - 1948) was a Swiss-French neuropathologist.
Jean-Jacques Lhermitte (1877 - 1959) was a French neurologist and neuropsychiatrist.
Dorothea Wilhelmine (née Barthel) Beauchamp (1911 - 2003) was an American physical therapist. Barthel index of functional independence (1965)
Thomas Sydenham (1624 - 1689) was an English physician.
Biography Born Died Medical Eponyms Key Medical Contributions Major Publications Controversies References Oven V. Piorry. Biographies des célébrités médicales, . 1867 Sakula A. Pierre Adolphe Piorry (1794-1879): pioneer of percussion and pleximetry. Thorax. 1979; 34(5): 575-581.