Medical Definition of Clonism
1. A long continued state of clonic spasms. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clonism
Literary usage of Clonism
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 (1913)
"Then followed unilateral contractions of the right facial, peculiar clonism of
the tongue and motor aphasia, indicating affection of the operculum Rolandi. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1881)
"Char- cot has given to this period the name of clonism. This period comprise»
two phases: 1st. That of illogical attitudes or contortions; 2d. ..."
3. A Treatise on Insanity in Its Medical Relations by William Alexander Hammond (1883)
"This is succeeded, after a period of repose, by the "period of contortions and
of great movements (clonism).'" It embraces two phases—that of illogical ..."
4. Symptomatology, Psychognosis, and Diagnosis of Psychopathic Diseases by Boris Sidis (1914)
"... condition may be followed by clonism, or the rare phenomenon of opisthotonos
may be encountered,—the body is arched and rests upon the back of the head ..."
5. Cerebellar Functions by J. André-Thomas (1912)
"... and the motor manifestations differ according to the proportions of one or
the other. clonism is a property of excitation from the cerebral cortex and ..."
6. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1912)
"... and the motor manifestations differ according to the proportions of one or
the other. clonism is a property of excitation from the cerebral cortex and ..."
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