(n.) A variety of chorea, marked by peculiar tremors of the fingers and toes.
Example Sentences:
(1) loss of motor programs), and the inappropriate release of such programs as a possible basis for the involuntary movements seen in other movement disorders, such as chorea, athetosis, dystonia, and hemiballismus.
(2) Quadraplegia athetosis and intellectual impairment did not affect the operative result adversely.
(3) Complete reduction of symptoms was observed in 4 persons with Parkinson's disease and in 2 patients with essential tremor with significant improvement observed in the rest of the patients with the exception of the individual with choreo-athetosis.
(4) Of the living, 55 percent had spasticity, 32 percent had athetosis, 4 percent had ataxia and 9 percent had mixed spasticity and athetosis; 38 percent had an intelligence quotient (IQ) less than 50, 24 percent between 50 and 79, and 38 percent had IQ above 80.
(5) Performance time was lowest at the 0-degree orientation during the retest for the subjects with spasticity and highest at 15-degree anterior inclination during the retest for the subjects with athetosis.
(6) Bilateral cervical posterior rhizotomy of C1 through C4, C5 or C6 was performed in 16 patients affected by dystonia and athetosis resulting from infantile cerebral palsy.
(7) The degree of pain was directly related to neurological maturity and to the coexistence of athetosis and spasticity.
(8) Patients with athetosis or rigidity were identified as those most likely to develop extension-abduction contractures either spontaneously or following adductor releases.
(9) The infant developed severe mental retardation, athetosis, and spasticity.
(10) Further causes were mental retardation, athetosis, pes calcaneus and general flexion patterns.
(11) Furthermore, the essential motor difficulties with spasm, athetosis and ataxia are described.
(12) The degree of athetosis was more severe in the upper extremities than in the lower ones.
(13) In patients with parkinsonism and double athetosis a number of cells (48%) with rhythmic activity were revealed.
(14) Foeto-maternal incompatibility was associated with athetosis, deafness, severe speech problems and ophthalmoplegias.
(15) In one patient who showed athetosis as a sequela of encephalitis japonica, the VL and PL in the thalamus were involved severely; in contrast the basal ganglia revealed very slight changes.
(16) A syndrome of ocular and cutaneous hypopigmentation, severe mental retardation with spastic tetraplegia and athetosis was first observed by Cross in three siblings of an inbred Amish family.
(17) About 19 percent suffered from an athetosis; about 20 percent from a hypotonia, including three with cerebellar ataxia.
(18) Radiculopathy or myelopathy often occurs during adult life in patients who have athetosis.
(19) Athetosis has not previously been described in typhoid fever and must now be added to the long list of neuropsychiatric manifestations of this disease.
(20) The phase lead of the action tonic stretch reflex was found to be reduced in patients with athetosis and cerebellar disease, thus diminishing damping of unwanted movements.
Bilateral
Definition:
(a.) Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is a similarity of parts on the right and left sides of the body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(2) These patients had undergone selective and bilateral simultaneous IPS sampling for diagnostic purposes or for neurosurgical indications.
(3) Two cases are presented of bilateral ureteral obstruction and uremia due to pressure from nodes involved in disseminated lymphoma.
(4) Most of these patients had undergone hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy.
(5) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
(6) We describe 10 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis: two had protein S deficiency, one had protein C deficiency, one was in early pregnancy, and there was a single case of each of the following: dural arteriovenous malformation, intracerebral arteriovenous malformation, bilateral glomus tumours, systemic lupus erythematosus, Wegener's granulomatosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(7) A constellation of histologic lesions was identified in brain (diffuse meningoencephalitis with bilaterally symmetrical thalamic necrosis), liver (pericholangiohepatitis), lung (pneumonitis), and spleen (lymphoid hyperplasia); this tetrad is apparently unique to this model system.
(8) The H reflex response was found in the anterior tibialis muscle, at least unilaterally if not bilaterally, in eight of nine subjects with Huntington disease and in five of eight persons at risk.
(9) This article presents the case of bilateral absent maxillary permanent molars with severe oligodontia and no other abnormalities.
(10) These findings suggest that conditioned circling is mediated by a bilateral involvement of the mesotelencephalic dopaminergic systems.
(11) The effect of Y-516 on the hyperactivity induced by dopamine injected bilaterally into the nucleus accumbens was compared with those of clocapramine (CCP), haloperidol (HPD) and chlorpromazine (CPZ).
(12) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).
(13) The same dose of clonidine evoked a much larger drop in blood pressure in another group of rats in which an equialent increase in blood pressure was produced by bilateral section of the vagosympathetic trunks and occlusion of both carotid arteries.
(14) Radio-iron utilization was nearly normal in these patients, only bilateral nephrectomized patients showed a reduced radio-iron utilization.
(15) Most of the bilateral lung lesions were removed through a median sternotomy so as to avoid staged bilateral thoracotomy.
(16) A therapeutic approach is suggested which emphasizes specific antibiotic regimens appropriate to the primary site of infection and prompt neurosurgical intervention with evacuation of the subdural spaces bilaterally.
(17) A 56-year-old man was admitted because of left facial palsy and hearing loss of bilateral ears.
(18) This early elevation in IOP was significantly more pronounced in bilateral superior cervical ganglionectomized (BG) rabbits.
(19) Before this report of 2 cases there were 22 cases of asynchronous bilateral renal cell carcinoma in Japanese literature.
(20) A high index of suspicion of bilateral tumors and a thorough work-up resulted in the early diagnosis of small tumors.