(n.) A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The observed clinical findings include scarring of the face and hands (83.7%), hyperpigmentation (65%), hypertrichosis (44.8%), pinched facies (40.1%), painless arthritis (70.2%), small hands (66.6%), sensory shading (60.6%), myotonia (37.9%), cogwheeling (41.9%), enlarged thyroid (34.9%), and enlarged liver (4.8%).
(2) The EMG patterns of patients showing cogwheel rigidity featured discrete, phasic bursts superimposed upon more generalized stretch-related increases in activity.
(3) The insertions of the microtubules were supported by blunt projections of the polar ring, forming a cogwheel pattern in transverse view.
(4) An original method of nonsuture microvascular anastomosis was developed using magnet rings and hollow cogwheel-shaped metal devices held together by magnetic power.
(5) No patients had optic atrophy, spasticity, pigmentary retinal degeneration, or cogwheel rigidity, and only 1 had dementia.
(6) Neurological examination revealed limb and truncal ataxia, orthostatic hypotension, cogwheel rigidity in all limbs, generalized hyperreflexia without pathological reflex, and horizontal gaze nystagmus.
(7) The pursuit abnormality, characterized clinically by "cogwheel" eye movements, represented the inability to match eye velocity to target velocity.
(8) In addition, however, the animal developed a 3.8 Hz resting tremor which in humans is pathognomonic of Parkinson's disease, as well as cogwheeling, the glabellar tap sign, drooling, impaired ability to relax, and many other symptoms.
(9) A cogwheel phenomenon, hypotonia and disorders of automatic and voluntary movements were also present.
(10) Within 5 days of erythromycin use, vomiting, weakness, lethargy, ataxia, nystagmus, and cogwheeling movements developed.
(11) On neurological examination of March, 1987 there were: slight right-sided hemiparesis with symmetrical hyperreflexia; discrete bradykinesia in combination with cogwheel rigidity also on the right-side; resting tremor of the right hand; and bilateral papilledema.
(12) These results do not support the previously reported frequent occurrence of cogwheel rigidity in patients on lithium maintenance.
(13) The data suggest a positive correlation between the duration of lithium maintenance and the severity of cogwheeling.
(14) The results confirm previously reported occurrence of cogwheeling in lithium-treated patients.
(15) One of them developed a fine tremor, three a coarse tremor with a cogwheel phenomenon, two developed a full parkinsonian syndrome.
(16) So far only one other case with the same findings has been described in the literature; it was termed "cogwheel macular degeneration."
(17) A specific morphologic abnormality, the cogwheel erythrocyte, has been reported in patients with neuroblastoma.
(18) We noted significantly higher prevalence of plastic rigidity with cogwheel phenomenon, headache, fatigue, nervousness, memory complaints, and sleepiness in the exposed group.
(19) Additional arguments for damage of cerebellar oculomotor functions are the predominance of cogwheeled smooth pursuit and the occasional observation of hypermetric saccades, both toward the side of the tumor.
(20) Cogwheel movements, rigidity, and marked sedation were documented.