Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

holmes rebound phenomenon

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English

Syllables: holmes re-bound- phe-nomenon
IPA

38

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sign of cerebellar disease characterized by certain abnormal movements in the patient's arm.

Etymology

First described by Gordon Morgan Holmes and Thomas Grainger Stewart in a paper published in 1904, though it was not named until a 1917 paper published by Holmes.

Inflected Forms

Holmes rebound phenomena (plural)

Questions

What does holmes rebound phenomenon mean?: A sign of cerebellar disease characterized by certain abnormal movements in the patient's arm.
Where does holmes rebound phenomenon come from?: First described by Gordon Morgan Holmes and Thomas Grainger Stewart in a paper published in 1904, though it was not named until a 1917 paper published by Holmes.

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