Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun babinski_sign

1 sense of babinski sign

Sense 1
Babinski, Babinski reflex, Babinski sign -- (extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front; normal in infants under the age of two years but a sign of brain or spinal cord injury in older persons)
       => reflex, reflex response, reflex action, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex, physiological reaction -- (an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus)