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KERNIG, Vladimir Mikhailovich (Woldemar) (1840 – 1917)

1840 – 1917

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1882 CE

#4677

Ein Krankheitssymptom der acuten Meningitis.

Kernig drew attention to a flexor contracture of the leg on attempting to extend it on the thigh (“Kernig’s sign”), almost always present in cerebrospinal meningitis and an important diagnostic sign.…