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Definition of Dyssynergia
1. Noun. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait.
Generic synonyms: Nervous Disorder, Neurological Disease, Neurological Disorder
Specialized synonyms: Friedreich's Ataxia, Herediatry Spinal Ataxia, Hereditary Cerebellar Ataxia
Group relationships: Spinocerebellar Disorder
Derivative terms: Atactic, Ataxic
Definition of Dyssynergia
1. Noun. (medicine) Failure of parts of the anatomy to work together correctly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Dyssynergia
1. An aspect of ataxia, in which an act is not performed smoothly or accurately because of lack of harmonious association of its various components; usually used to describe abnormalities of movement caused by cerebellar disorders. Origin: dys-+ G. Syn, with, + ergon, work (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dyssynergia
Literary usage of Dyssynergia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1921)
"The muscular dyssynergia of this patient is not a ... The same dyssynergia with
the resulting dysmetria which afflicts his body and limbs, ..."
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)
"The absence of hypotonia, dyssynergia, dysmetria and ... of the category of those
described by Hunt under the title of dyssynergia cerebellaris progressiva. ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"... dyssynergia cerebellaris progressiva Brain tumor Cerebral palsies of children
Arteriosclerosis Hysteria. CEREBROSPINAL SYPHILIS. ..."
4. Clinical Medicine; Tuesday Clinics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1922)
"dyssynergia cerebellaris progressiva (the chronic progressive cerebellar tremor).
Jour. Nerv, and Ment. Dis., New York, 1914, xli, 579. Jendrassik (E.). ..."
5. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1918)
"It is a definite disease, and, like such affections as paralysis agitans, double
athetosis and dyssynergia ..."
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