English Explanatory Dictionary

Kohnstamm's phenomenon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The sustained involuntary contraction of a muscle after a prolonged voluntary contraction.

Word forms

Kohnstamm's phenomenon

Etymology

First described by German neurologist Oskar Kohnstamm in 1915.

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