单词 | reflex hammer |
释义 | > as lemmasreflex hammer reflex hammer n. Medicine a small hammer, typically with a triangular rubber head, used for testing the patellar reflex and similar neurological reflexes; cf. percussion hammer n. (b) at percussion n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1914 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Psychopathol. Everyday Life viii. 181 For many years a reflex hammer and a tuning-fork lay side by side on my desk. 1967 Med. Hist. 11 77 For many decades the ‘percussor’ remained in the internist's armamentarium, where Professor Dr. Wilhelm Erb conveniently found it, ready to be converted into a ‘reflex hammer’. 2004 Independent 14 June (Review section) 9/5 An unnamed Derbyshire GP is said to have abandoned the traditional doctor's bag in favour of a fisherman's gilet, and stuffs its pockets with ophthalmoscope, reflex hammer, pens and sundry nostrums. < as lemmas |
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