athetosis
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek ἄθετος (áthetos, “not fixed”), itself from τίθημι (títhēmi).
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 (2001–2023), “athetosis”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “ἄθετος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
