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Definition of Athetoid
1. affected with a type of nervous disorder [adj]
Medical Definition of Athetoid
1. Resembling athetosis. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Athetoid
Literary usage of Athetoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nervous and mental diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1899)
"or face and the athetoid condition is commonly confined to it. Contractures
predominate in the loot and leg, producing an ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1882)
"... frontal lobe may be injured without interfering with the intelligence of the
individual. ARTICLE III.—Athetosis and athetoid Movements in tfw Insane. ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"(b) Athetosis or athetoid Movements Slow, irregular, vermicular, involuntary
movements of the fingers, toes, and sometimes of the face have been so termed ..."
4. Lectures on diseases of the spinal cord by Pierre Marie (1895)
"athetoid movements and muscular tremors. 3. Paralysis : its characters ; hemiplegia,
paraplegia with sudden onset ..."
5. Diagnosis of Organic Nervous Diseases by Christian Archibald Herter, Leon Pierce Clark (1907)
"Athetosis and athetoid Movements.—The word athetosis (meaning, "without form")
... These " athetoid movements," as they are called, never occur while the ..."
6. A Hand-book on the Diseases of Children and Their Homeopathic Treatment by Charles Edmund Fisher (1895)
"The movements are more exaggerated than are seen in hypertrophie tremor and are
increased by involuntary efforts just as are the athetoid movements already ..."
7. The Diagnosis of Diseases of the Nervous System: A Manual for Students and by Christian Archibald Herter (1892)
"Athetosis and athetoid Movements.—The word athetosis was introduced to designate
a peculiar form of chronic spasm,—" mobile spasm " it has been aptly called ..."
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