Crossword-Solution: BABINSKI 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Among the theories suggested in explanation of these arthropathies the most recent is that by Babinski and Barré, which traces the condition to vascular lesions of a syphilitic type in the articular arteries.

The deep reflexes, particularly the knee-jerks, may be absent at first, but they soon return, and are usually exaggerated; a well-marked Babinski response may appear later.

The insensitiveness is similarly explained by Babinski,[10] who uses a different method of examination.

This avoids the suggestion of loss of sensation, and the result is that Babinski finds few examples of such loss in cases where the 'Do you feel that?' method would produce many positive results.

Here is a definition by Babinski, a French writer of international reputation:-- 'Hysteria is a peculiar psychical state capable of giving rise to certain conditions which have features of their own.