Bárány's sign

Bárány's sign definition - medical

Bárány's sign

noun
An indication of ear disease despite a healthy vestibule in which injection into the external auditory canal of water below the body temperature causes rotary nystagmus toward the opposite side while injection of water above the body temperature causes nystagmus toward the injected side.

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