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Queck·en·stedt test Pronunciation:
'kvek-&n-shtet- Function:
noun : a test for spinal blockage of the subarachnoidspace in which manual pressure is applied to the jugular vein to elevate venous pressure, which indicates the absence of a block when there is a simultaneous increase in cerebrospinal fluid pressure,and which indicates the presence of a block when cerebrospinal fluid pressure remains the same or almost the same called also
Queckenstedt sign Queckenstedt,
Hans HeinrichGeorg (1876–1918), German physician. Queckenstedt devoted most of his energies to the management of the sick at clinics first in Heidelberg and then in Rostock, Germany. He publishedpapers on iron metabolism in pernicious anemia, on periostitis in typhoid fever, and on the dynamics and constituents of cerebrospinal fluid. He introduced the procedure known as the Queckenstedt testin 1916.
