Parrot sign

Parrot sign
1. ciliospinal reflex. 2. bony nodes on the outer table of the skull of infants with congenital syphilis, so that it has a hot cross bun or buttock shape; called also Parrot nodes, hot cross bun skull, and natiform skull.

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