Sentence examples for vibratory sense from inspiring English sources
Neurologic dysfunction may manifest in the lower extremities as loss of fine and gross motor function, touch, pain, temperature, and proprioceptive and vibratory sense deficits.
This causes abnormal sensation (numbness or tingling) or loss of sensation, loss of position sense and vibratory sense, and weakness of the muscles of the feet, lower legs, and hands.
The tendon reflexes were examined bilaterally in the quadriceps and gastrocnemius, and vibratory sense was tested in the first metatarsal bilaterally with a 128-Hz tuning fork.
Vibratory sense was measured with a 128-Hz tuning fork bilaterally at the medial malleolus and the interphalangeal joint of the first metatarsal (0 = normal or 1 = abnormal).
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) constitutes a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative disorders characterized mainly by progressive lower-limb weakness, spasticity and decreased vibratory sense (Harding, 1983).
The dorsal column-medial lemniscus system has classically been viewed as a pathway devoted to transmission of fine touch, vibratory sense and proprioception, and the dorsal columns have been considered as composed mostly of thick myelinated primary sensory fibers.
The disease is characterized by gait and limb ataxia, dysarthria, usually absent tendon reflexes, bilateral Babinski sign, impairment of position and vibratory senses, scoliosis, and pes cavus [2].
The touch and vibratory senses as well as temperature perception of the plantar foot are mediated by different nerves; damage can elicit an abnormal response and people will lose the protective sensation.
Like so much of the exhibition, the display of Clark's work is interactive, allowing a visitor to manipulate a length of anesthesia tubing, for example, in such a way that produces the sounds and even the vibratory sensation of respiration, or to wear a cloth mask into which impediments to sight and hearing have been sewn, so that the other senses may be heightened.
Eleven patients (31%) had abnormal vibratory sensation.
Vibratory sensation was minimally decreased at the great toes.
