caloric test (redirected from Caloric reflex test)

caloric test

n.

Bárány's caloric test.

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caloric test Neurology A test of vestibular function in which the ear canal is irrigated with cold and hot water, which often identifies an impairment or loss of thermally induced nystagmus on the involved side; the use of thermic stimuli to induce endolymphatic flow in the horizontal semicircular canal and horizontal nystagmus by creating a temperature gradient between the 2 sides of the canal