- Schultze-Chvostek sign
- Schult·ze-Chvos·tek sign (shooltґsə kvosґtek) [F. Schultze; Franz Chvostek, Austrian surgeon, 1835–1884] Chvostek sign.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Schultze-Chvostek sign
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