What's the difference between akinesia and akinesis?
Akinesia
Definition:
(n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Injection of a low dose of haloperidol, that has no obvious behavioral effects in normal mice, produces akinesia, catalepsy, and somatosensory neglect in MPTP-treated mice.
(2) All patients were given a 9 ml peribulbar block by one surgeon, and a graded assessment of analgesia and akinesia was made in a masked fashion one hour later.
(3) The ICMP diagnosis is based on considerably increased ventriculographic volumetric parameters, and diffuse hypo- and akinesia of the left ventricle with the ejection fraction falling below 30% in patients with coronarographically-documented coronary arterial lesions.
(4) Akinesia refers to failure of willed movement to occur, and bradykinesia refers to slowness of movement that is ongoing.
(5) Out of a total of 94 schizophrenic patients, 28 developed a mild akinesia and 32 never developed extrapyramidal symptoms.
(6) Its relations to akinesia and the psychomotor retardation of depression are considered in a historical context, as are its implications for the relation of neurological and psychiatric disorder.
(7) Akinesia and bradykinesia are integral parts of such syndromes, at times even constituting their essential element.
(8) Clinical symptoms were stereotyped and unique, showing severe akinesia, no rigidity in the limbs, no tremor but retropulsions, upward gaze palsy, dysarthria, dysphagia and later, nuchal stiffness.
(9) Akinesia and gait improved significantly in a dose-dependent manner in 5 and 7 patients respectively.
(10) The action of opiates leading to an inhibition of flexor alpha-motoneurones may contribute to akinesia and catalepsy, and opioid-induced muscular rigidity.
(11) The single-injection peribulbar technique is an effective method of obtaining anesthesia and akinesia prior to anterior segment eye surgery.
(12) We reported previously that microinjections of carbachol directly into the pontine reticular formation of rats induced intense akinesia.
(13) There was mild anteroapical hypokinesia in two patients, anteroapical akinesia in one and mild inferior hypokinesia in one.
(14) Predictors of death included EF at rest, presence of akinesia or dyskinesia on the ventriculogram at rest, the number of abnormal LV segments, history of congestive heart failure, history of acute myocardial infarction, absence of acute myocardial infarction at the time of VF and the presence of ventricular arrhythmia.
(15) Beside the role of the neuronal cell loss affecting the pars compacta of the substantia nigra (SN) in akinesia, the role of the lesions affecting the G.P.
(16) Parkinson's syndrome, consisting mainly of muscular rigidity and akinesia, was usually marked in the later stage, although there were also 8 cases (28.6%) in which no parkinsonian symptoms were detected even in the terminal stage.
(17) The akinesia and postural instability scores were significantly improved up to the 9th year.
(18) The left ventricular ejection fraction, which was severly depressed after 1 hour of occlusion, changed minimally after administration of nitroglycerin, and there was no evidence of any correction of regional left ventricular akinesia or dyskinesia.
(19) injection of the dopamine agonist lisuride reversed THDL-induced akinesia in these seven patients.
(20) Adequate anesthesia and akinesia, independent of the duration of surgery, was obtained in 26 of 33 (78.8%) patients who underwent vitrectomy; 9 of 32 (28.1%) who underwent scleral buckling; and 2 of 11 (18.2%) who underwent vitrectomy combined with scleral buckling.