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Placing reflex of newborn

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12/08/05 - 08:04 AM

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12/08/05 - 11:21 AM

Flexion followed by extension of the lower limb when the infant is held erect and the dorsum of the foot is drawn along the under edge of a table top, seen in the normal infant up to the age of six weeks.

from Dorlands

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