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Vestfalya paradoxical muscular phenomenon

Vestfalya a paradoxical muscular phenomenon (To. F. The lake of Westphal, the German psychiatrist and the neuropathologist, 1833-1890) – reduction (instead of the relaxation which is made normal) muscles at its bystry passive shortening (for example, preservation at a passive dorsiflexion of foot of the situation given it); it is noted at pathology of extrapyramidal system.

 
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