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Romberg Med.|ˈrɒmbɜːg| The name of Moritz Heinrich Romberg (1795–1873), German physician, used in the possessive, attrib., and absol. to designate (a) the test of requiring a patient to stand with feet together and eyes closed, and (b) the sign or symptom, diagnostic of ataxia, shown by a patient who then sways or falls (described by Romberg in Lehrb. d. Nervenkrankheiten des Menschen (1846) I. 795).
1885Jrnl. Nervous & Mental Dis. XII. 354 ‘Romberg's symptom’— i.e. inability to stand with the eyes shut and the feet together—is not always present. Ibid. 355 ‘The Romberg symptom’. 1932Practitioners Libr. Med. & Surg. II. xxiii. 809 The Romberg test for static ataxia is carried out by having the patient stand with heels and toes together with open eyes and then with closed eyes. The tendency to sway appreciably with the eyes shut constitutes a positive Romberg. 1961Lancet 9 Sept. 569/1 Both legs were slightly weak, and Romberg's sign was positive. 1977Ibid. 10 Dec. 1228/2 Neurological examination revealed a vertical gaze palsy,..and a tendency to fall backwards on Romberg's test. |