While the reflexes were being tested he volunteered the information that his left patellar reflex was very much stronger than the right.
"Studies in Forensic Psychiatry"
Bernard Glueck
Salivation is insufficient, the patellar reflex intermittent.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
That devised by Goldthwait consists in exposing, by means of a vertical incision, the whole length of the patellar ligament, splitting it longitudinally, separating the lateral half from the tibia, passing it under the medial portion and suturing it to the periosteum; this gives the quadriceps a straight line of pull.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson