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n. - Convulsion characterized by alternating contractions and relaxations.

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  • There was neither ankle nor patellar clonus, and the other reflexes were present and normal.
  • Tapping of one knee tended to set musculature of opposite knee in mild clonus of short duration.
  • Both deep and superficial reflexes exaggerated; ankle clonus both sides; hyperæsthesia of abdomen and face.
  • No foot clonus, no Babinski; abdominal reflexes present, cremasteric not elicited; catalepsy not always present.
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