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Definition of Athetoses
1. athetosis [n] - See also: athetosis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Athetoses
Literary usage of Athetoses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"... important to determine whether the " rest exchange " of such patients when
kept in bed is subnormal, and if slight movements (tremors, tic, athetoses, ..."
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 (1914)
"That is, though I did not find characteristic choreas or athetoses (such as occur
in various globar destructive cases of thalamus lesion), ..."
3. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1895)
"... -athetoses) and the co-ordinated tics, of which the movements are slower,
sometimes rhythmic, sometimes arhythmic, and to which may be added ..."
4. Diseases of the Nervous System by Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"... these cases there is a bilateral cerebral affection; some of these belong to
the group of obscure " idiopathic " athetoses without anatomical finding. ..."
5. The Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book for Physicians and Students by Ludwig Hirt (1899)
"... and, similarly, some explanation can be found for the few remaining cases
published as "idiopathic" athetoses, some of which were congenital. ..."
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