amimia

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek [Term?]

Noun

amimia (countable and uncountable, plural amimias)

1. (medicine) inability to express oneself using gestures
   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

     Parkinsonism, at its severest, presents itself as an akinetic amimia (as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias).

Translations

inability to express oneself using gestures

• Portuguese: amimia f
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Related terms

• mime
• mimic

Anagrams

• mia mia

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Portuguese

Noun

amimia f (uncountable)

1. (psychiatry) amimia (inability to express oneself using gestures)