Open AccessThe Crocodile Tear Syndrome
Author(s) -
Hani Yousuf Naik,
Mahima Goel,
Nida Baloch
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of research and review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2454-2237
pISSN - 2349-9788
DOI - 10.52403/ijrr.20220255
Subject(s) - crocodile , reflex , anatomy , medicine , head (geology) , art , anesthesia , biology , ecology , paleontology
The Gusto-lacrimal reflex (The syndrome of Unilateral Lacrimation) associated with eating or drinking was first described by Oppenheim in 1913 and further elaborated by Bogarad in 1928- who called it the SYNDROME OF “CROCODILE TEARS.”The notion that the crocodile, a ferocious predator, will weep over a man’s head after it has devoured the body and then eat up the head too was the theme of one of the many scientific anecdotes of Pliny the Elder.Keywords: Intermediate nerve of Wrisberg, Misdrection of regenerating nerve fibers.