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Best eye response: (E)

4. Eyes opening spontaneously
3. Eye opening to speech
2. Eye opening to pain
1. No eye opening

Best verbal response: (V)

5. Infant coos or babbles (normal activity)
4. Infant is irritable and continually cries
3. Infant cries to pain
2. Infant moans to pain
1. No verbal response

Best motor responses: (M)

6. Infant moves spontaneously or purposefully
5. Infant withdraws from touch
4. Infant withdraws from pain
3. Abnormal flexion to pain for an infant (decorticate response)
2. Extension to pain (decerebrate response)
1. No motor response

Any combined score of less than eight represents a significant risk to mortality. The decorticate response is a medical term for the involuntary flexing of the upper extremities in response to external stimuli. ... The decerebrate response is a medical term for the involuntary extending of the upper extremities in response to external stimuli. ...