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Definition of Jactitations
1. jactitation [n] - See also: jactitation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jactitations
Literary usage of Jactitations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1893)
"... of cases than N2O alone,—doing away, as it does, with the troublesome jactitations
and cyanosis, so alarming in most cases of nitrous oxide anaesthesia. ..."
2. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1875)
"The tremulousness and twitching of the muscles, show it homoeopathic to chorea
and nervous jactitations. ..."
3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1863)
"Frequent jactitations of limbs. Convulsive twitching of eyelids. ... Occasional
jactitations and general tremor, continuing only for about half a minute at ..."
4. A Treatise on the practice of medicine by Roberts Bartholow (1898)
"Then irregular jactitations become more common in the face and upper extremities.
The choreic movements may be limited to one side of the body, ..."
5. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1868)
"When admitted the face was flushed and hot; jactitations were violent all over
... She slept in the night a quarter of an hour, and then the jactitations ..."
6. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"Normal action of the arm gradually returned, but jactitations soon supervened,
and three months after the operation the case was just as it had been before. ..."
7. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1899)
"The mind is obscured during the extension of these jactitations, and the patient
falls down, if this has nut already been caused ..."
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