Medical

electrotonic reaction

An obsolete clinical manoeuvre in which focal electrical stimulation of the skin over the dorsal spinous process between T3 and T4 evokes hypotension and cutaneous erythema, held as evidence for the existance of a "depressor" nerve in the region.

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