cogwheel rigidity |
rigidity of a muscle that gives way in a series of little jerks upon being passively stretched, analogous to the ratcheting movement when a spring-loaded rod drops into the successive notches of a cog. Called also cogwheel phenomenon or sign and Negro's phenomenon or sign.
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