athetosis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs, typically bilateral and symmetric and predominantly affecting the distal parts of the limbs.

Word forms

athetosis athetoses

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄθετος (áthetos, “not fixed”), itself from τίθημι (títhēmi), + -osis.

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