tache cérébrale


tache

 [tahsh] (Fr.) a spot or blemish.tache blanche (“white spot”), a white spot on the liver in certain infectious diseases.t's bleuâtres (“bluish spots”), maculae caeruleae.tache cérébrale (“cerebral spot”), a congested streak produced by drawing the nail across the skin; a concomitant of various nervous or cerebral diseases.tache motrice (“motor spot”), a motor nerve ending in which the nerve fibril passes to a muscle cell, where it ends in a slight enlargement.tache noire (“black spot”), an ulcer covered with a black crust, a characteristic local reaction at the presumed site of the infective bite in certain tickborne rickettsioses.

tache cérébrale

The red line that occurs in meningitis and other neurological disorders when a fingernail is drawn across the skin.See also: tache