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- hydrocephalus, poisoning, and drowning.[citation needed] Opisthotonus is more pronounced in infants. Opisthotonus in the neonate may be a symptom of meningitis,...
- indicate subarachnoid haemorrhage or meningitis. Patients may also show opisthotonus—spasm of the whole body that leads to legs and head being bent back and...
- the skeletal muscles. The limbs are extended and the neck is curved to opisthotonus. The pupils are widely dilated. As death approaches, the convulsions...
- chest; decerebrate posturing, with the arms extended at the sides; and opisthotonus, in which the head and back are arched backward.[citation needed] Decorticate...
- Faux and Padian suggested in 2007 that the live animal was suffering opisthotonus during its death throes, and that the pose is not the result of any post-mortem...
- buttocks may be affected. Back muscle spasms often cause arching, called opisthotonus. Sometimes, the spasms affect muscles utilized during inhalation and...
- precursor position to standing). They may lie with their necks arched back (opisthotonus) and legs stiff (extensor rigidity); generalised tonic-clonic seizures...
- indicate subarachnoid hemorrhage or meningitis. Patients may also show opisthotonus—spasm of the whole body that leads to legs and head being bent back and...
- These neurologic signs include athetosis, hypertonia, spasticity, and opisthotonus that lead to convulsions and coma. If MSUD is left untreated, central...
- arms) loss of consciousness Syncope (medicine) (R55) neck stiffness opisthotonus paralysis and paresis paresthesia (R20.2) prosopagnosia somnolence (R40...