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DIASCHISIS [1 record]

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Record 1 2001-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
DEF

A suspension of activity, which usually arises suddendly, affecting a widely radiating central field of function.

CONT

Diaschisis consists essentially of a lowering or abolition of the power of the central elements (groups of neurones) to respond to stimuli within a definite and physiologically definable zone of excitation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
OBS

Ce concept dû à von Monakow (1914), traduit la notion de dysfonction temporaire, réversible, de zones cérébrales non directement lésées. Elle correspond à l'inhibition, la perte d'excitabilité de neurones adjacents ou éloignés mais en connexion fonctionnelle avec les aires détruites.

Spanish

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