athetosis
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἄθετος (áthetos, “not fixed”), itself from τίθημι (títhēmi), + -osis.
Noun
[edit]athetosis (countable and uncountable, plural athetoses)
- (medicine) A series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs, typically bilateral and symmetric and predominantly affecting the distal parts of the limbs.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs
References
[edit]- Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “athetosis”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “ἄθετος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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