athetosis
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[edit] Noun
Wikipedia athetosis (plural athetoses)
- (medicine) A series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs
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Athetosis consists of slow, regular, continual twisting movements that are typically bilateral and symetric and predominaltly affect the distal parts of the limbs.