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PENILE REFLEX [1 record]

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Record 1 2001-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
DEF

A sharp contraction of the bulbocavernosus and ischiocavernosus muscles when the glans penis is suddenly compressed or tapped.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
CONT

L'examen [neurologique] du périnée explore d'abord la sensibilité péri-anale (territoire de la queue de cheval), puis le tonus musculaire (en demandant au patient de «serrer les fesses», on apprécie avec le doigt intra-rectal la contraction des muscles releveurs de l'anus) ainsi que le réflexe bulbo-caverneux (toute pression du gland ou du clitoris déclenche une contraction réflexe des muscles releveurs de l'anus).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
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