Definition of Hypermotility

1. Noun. Excessive movement; especially excessive motility of the gastrointestinal tract.

Generic synonyms: Illness, Malady, Sickness, Unwellness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypermotility

hypermobile
hypermobilities
hypermobility
hypermobility syndrome
hypermodern
hypermodernism
hypermodernist
hypermodernists
hypermodernity
hypermodified
hypermonopoles
hypermorph
hypermorphic
hypermorphs
hypermotile
hypermotility (current term)
hypermultiplet
hypermultiplets
hypermuscular
hypermutability
hypermutable
hypermutable phenotype
hypermutate
hypermutated
hypermutates
hypermutation
hypermutations
hypermutator
hypermutators
hypermyotonia

Literary usage of Hypermotility

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

1. Diseases of the Digestive Organs: With Special Reference to Their Diagnosis by Charles Dettie Aaron (1921)
"hypermotility (HYPERKINESIS). "hypermotility" is a term which designates an abnormally increased movement in the evacuation of the stomach, ..."

2. Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines by Robert Coleman Kemp (1910)
"Later they propel it into the intestine. These motor functions may be irritated (exaggerated) or depressed (diminished). hypermotility OF THE STOMACH ..."

3. The Chemical investigation of gastric and intestinal diseases by the aid of by Vaughan Harley, Francis W. Goodbody (1906)
"(a) hypermotility—General hypermotility of the stomach may in some ... As a general rule, we may consider that hypermotility is accompanied by no ..."

4. The Food Tract, Its Ailments and Disease of the Peritoneum by Alexander Leslie Blackwood (1900)
"hypermotility OF THE STOMACH. This is a motor neurosis in which the contents ... with hypermotility of the stomach and is supposed to be a frequent cause. ..."

5. The Roentgen Diagnosis of Diseases of the Alimentary Canal by Russell Daniel Carman (1920)
"As a rule, the degree of hypermotility can be reckoned by the advance of the head of ... In the presence of a decided hypermotility we should consider as ..."

6. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"hypermotility (hyperkinetic). 2. Chronic obstipation of ascending colon type ... hypermotility of the colon. At the six- hour interval we find, anatomically ..."

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