Definition of Asynergy

1. Noun. Absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously.

Exact synonyms: Asynergia
Generic synonyms: Pathology
Derivative terms: Asynergic, Asynergic

Definition of Asynergy

1. lack of muscle co-ordination [n ASYNERGIES]

Medical Definition of Asynergy

1. Lack of coordination among various muscle groups during the performance of complex movements, resulting in loss of skill and speed. When severe, results in decomposition of movement, wherein complex motor acts are performed in a series of isolated movements; caused by cerebellar disorders. Synonym: asynergia. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Asynergy

asynchronous pulse generator
asynchronous transfer mode
asynchronously
asynchronousness
asynchrony
asynclitism
asyndesis
asyndeta
asyndetic
asyndetically
asyndeton
asyndetons
asynechia
asynergia
asynergic
asynergy (current term)
asynesia
asystematic
asystole
asystoles
asystolia
asystolic
asystolism
at's
at-
at-bat
at-bats
at-fault
at-grade
at-home card

Literary usage of Asynergy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cerebellar Functions by J. André-Thomas (1912)
"gained in part, thanks to the intervention of other centers than the cerebellum, and particularly to that of the cerebrum. The theory of asynergy, set forth ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"In the usual tumor growing from the cerebello-pontile angle the cerebellar symptoms are not very marked, and the asynergy will be limited to the arm and leg ..."

3. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1912)
"The theory of asynergy, set forth by M. Babinski, after an examination of patients ... Since asynergy is nothing but a disturbance of muscular association, ..."

4. Skin and Venereal Diseases (1903)
"In cerebellar asynergy (ataxia), on the other hand, static equilibrium may be ... It is very likely that the catalepsy, like the asynergy (ataxia), ..."

5. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Cerebellar asynergy. Attitude on Standing 249 547.—Attitude of a Healthy Subject Trying to Raise Himself from a Recumbent to a Sitting Posture 249 548. ..."

6. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1917)
"... for there was bilateral ptosis, oscillations of the eyeballs, jerkings over various portions of the body, with asynergy of the limbs. ..."

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