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