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extensor rigidity

extensor rigidity

rigid contractions of extensor muscles. The kind of rigidity sometimes indicates the site of the motor neuron lesion associated with the disorder. Injury to the cerebellum produces increased tone of extensor muscles, called cerebellar rigidity. See also decerebrate rigidity.

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