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Stewart's test(medicine)
Doerfler(medicine)
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Stewart, R(medicine)
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Stewart, George(medicine)
Stewart Island(tourism)

nucleus arcuatus (medicine) and Doerfler-Stewart test (medicine)


nucleus arcuatus (medicine)


nucleus arcuatus -->
arcuate nucleus of thalamus


The small ventral region of the ventral posteromedial nucleus of thalamus in which the fibres of the gustatory lemniscus and secondary trigeminal tracts terminate; it projects to the lower part of the postcentral gyrus of the cerebral cortex.

Synonym: arcuate nucleus, nucleus arcuatus thalami, nucleus arcuatus, semilunar nucleus of Flechsig, thalamic gustatory nucleus.


Doerfler-Stewart test (medicine)


Doerfler-Stewart test
Examination of the patient's ability to respond to spondee words in the presence of a masking noise of the saw-tooth type; used especially in differentiating between functional and organic hearing loss.

Synonym: D-S test.