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Definition of Athetosis

1. Noun. A continuous succession of slow, writhing, involuntary movements of the hands and feet and other body parts.

Definition of Athetosis

1. n. A variety of chorea, marked by peculiar tremors of the fingers and toes.

Definition of Athetosis

1. Noun. (symptom) A series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs, typically bilateral and symmetric and predominantly affecting the distal parts of the limbs. ¹

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Definition of Athetosis

1. [n -TOSES]

Medical Definition of Athetosis

1. A derangement marked by ceaseless occurrence of slow, sinuous, writhing movements, especially severe in the hands and performed involuntarily, it may occur after hemiplegia and is then known as posthemiplegic chorea. Synonym: mobile spasm. Origin: Gr. Athetos = not fixed (13 Nov 1997)

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Literary usage of Athetosis

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

1. 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 (1886)
"Dr. Hammond, in his original article, located the disease in the optic thalamus or corpus striatum. Oul- mont, in his monograph on athetosis, attributes the ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1886)
"SINCE the time when athetosis was first described by Dr. WA Hammond, ... Oul- mont, in his monograph on athetosis, attributes the disease to what he calls ..."

3. Pediatrics: The Hygienic and Medical Treatment of Children by Thomas Morgan Rotch (1906)
"athetosis is a symptom, and not a disease, and is represented by ... Certain cases of acquired athetosis occur without any accompanying paralysis. ..."

4. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System by William Alexander Hammond (1876)
"From these phenomena, I have applied the term athetosis to the disease, having as yet had no opportunity of ascertaining by post-mortem examination the ..."

5. An Index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by Herbert French (1912)
"athetosis is a form of involuntary movement affecting the fingers, hands, ... Analogous movements are observed when athetosis occurs in the lower extremity, ..."

6. Lectures on the diseases of the nervous system by Jean Martin Charcot (1881)
"The following cases illustrate perfectly the principal characters of athetosis : CASE i.—Gr—, now aged 32, had convulsions when eight 1 December, ..."

7. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1914)
"The ameboid and tentacle-like movement of the fingers and toes in athetosis, once recognized, can hardly be mistaken for anything else. ..."

8. Relations of Diseases of the Eye to General Diseases: Forming a by Max Knies (1895)
"athetosis. Chorea is allied to athetosis, in which there are usually ... Nothnagel mentions contraction of both superior recti in right- sided athetosis. ..."

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