Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in New York History
... Jerk Most Likely to Be Rolling in Cash . 13 Chapter 3 : " Typhoid " Mary Mallon : The Jerk Most Likely to Poison You 26 Chapter 4 : Langley Collyer : The Jerk Most Likely to Have Dead Bodies in His Attic . . . Chapter 5 : Anthony ...
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present
... Jerk . 1853. REV . E. BRADLEY , [ ' CUTHBERT Bede ' ] , Verdant Green , p . II . ch . iii . It was darkly whispered that the purlieus of JERICHO Would send forth champions to the fight . FROM JERICHO TO JUNE , phr . ( common ) . A long ...
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present
... Jerk . 1853. REV . E. BRADLEY , [ ' CUTHBERT Bede ' ] , Verdant Green , p . II . ch . iii . It was darkly whispered that the purlieus of JERICHO Would send forth champions to the fight . FROM JERICHO TO JUNE , phr . ( common ) . A long ...
Myoclonic Epilepsies
... jerk with a con- comitant upward deviation of the eyes and a brief absence . In bright sunlight jerking of the eyelids may be very pronounced and some of the children regarded as having self - induced epilepsy appear to have ELMA ( 5,6 ) ...
A Comprehensible Guide to Servo Motor Sizing
Wilfried Voss. 3.2.6 Jerk Limitation Jerk Limitation (a.k.a. S-Curve Profiling) is the time rate of change of axis acceleration/deceleration. It provides smoother motion control by reducing the jerk (rate of change) in acceleration ...
The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
... jerk undergoes great variations in health . The average extent of the knee - jerk on ris- ing , when not fully awake , is low ; it rises greatly after breakfast , falls off during the forenoon , rises after luncheon , falls off during ...
Clinical Studies
... jerk is present , a sharp jerk of the foot in the direction of plantar flexion is observed . If the Achillis - jerk is not obtained in this way , the method of reinforcement should then be employed . In examining the Achillis - jerks ...
Psychological effects of alcohol
... jerk . It has a latency of the same order as the knee - jerk , and normally changes very slowly from adaptation . Fur- thermore , entirely adequate and relatively simple technique is avail- able , by which uniform stimuli ( sound ) can ...
Electric Traction
... jerks is 30 one - thirtieth of that due to free gravity fall . The average during the up stroke of the jerk from mean position is about half of this ; and during the down stroke as far as this mean position , there continues an upward ...
The Lawyers' Reports Annotated
... jerk , it will throw a person backward . Q. You did step on your skirt when you were entering ? A. I did not step on ... jerk of the car . inquiries : ( 1 ) Was there any evidence sufficient to warrant the jury in finding that the ...
Diagnosis of Organic Nervous Diseases
... jerk after variable period . 3. Acute ascending paralysis . Bilateral and early loss very constant ; usually persistent , but knee - jerk may return . 4. Any severe lesion of anterior crural nerve , sensory or motor fibres , or both ...
Skin and Venereal Diseases, Nervous and Mental Diseases
... jerk diminishes with increasing age ; consequently , absence of the Achilles- jerk , especially if bilateral , has not the same significance as in young persons and middle - aged adults , in whom it means organic disease . 3 ...
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
... jerk . A witty sally , a retort ; a lash with a whip : both , despite F. & H. , are S.E. But Dr Jerk , a flogging schoolmaster , was coll . ca. 1740-1830 . Foote . 2. A musculo - tendinous reflex ( action ) : medical students ...
The South Western Reporter
... jerk , and jerked the car from under me , and I fell . There seemed to be a great deal of slack in the couplings . The jerk was harder than usual , I think . " That the jerk was harder than usual . That he had traveled on rail- roads ...
New York Supreme Court Record on Appeal
... jerk or a severe jerk ? A. It was kind of a severe jerk from other times . Q. You say Mr. Bouse was thrown over ? In which direction did you see him thrown ? A. His foot was caught and was thrown like to the side and he turned , and ...
Reports of Cases Determined in the Appellate Courts of Illinois
... jerk at the time of the accident was unusual and sudden , a hard jerk ; that " the effect of the jerk on the trailer car was that it gave such a jerk " that it " bumped into the motor car ; it gave an awful jerk ; " that the effect on ...
Encyclopaedia medica v. 11, 1902
... jerk , C5-6 ; the triceps jerk , C6-7 ; the wrist jerk , C7-8 ; the gluteus jerk , L5 - S1 ; the knee jerk , L2 - L4 ; the hamstrings jerk , S2 - S3 ; the tendo - Achillis jerk , L5 - S1 . The majority of these reflexes are well known ...
Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
... jerk absent ; tendo Achillis - jerk absent ; plantar reflexes present ; no clonus ; elbow - jerk absent . March 10. Walks without assistance but gait faltering and unsteady ; speech as good as other children at her age ; appetite ...
A Treatise on the Law of the Employers' Liability Acts of New York, Massachusetts, Indiana, Alabama, Colorado, and England
... jerk is something that will hap- pen on any freight - train , and that he could not swear whether it was a usual or an unusual jerk . The engineer testified that he did not start with an unusual jerk , and that he did nothing out of the ...
The American Year-book of Medicine and Surgery
... jerk in locomotor ataxia . Out of 29 cases of undoubted tabes the biceps tendon - jerk was present in 9 and the triceps tendon - jerk was present in 2 cases on both sides and on one side in 2 others . In the 2 cases in which the triceps ...