Dix-Hallpike maneuver

Dix-Hall·pike maneuver

(diks hal'pīk), test for eliciting paroxysmal vertigo and nystagmus in which the patient is brought from the sitting to the supine position with the head hanging over the examining table and turned to the right or left; vertigo and nystagmus are elicited when the head is rotated toward the affected ear.

Dix-Hall·pike ma·neu·ver

(diks-hawl'pīk mă-nū'vĕr) Test for eliciting paroxysmal vertigo and nystagmus in which the patient is brought from the sitting to the supine position with the head hanging over the examining table and turned to the right or left; vertigo and nystagmus are elicited when the head is rotated toward the affected ear.