(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.
Involuntary
Definition:
(a.) Not having will or the power of choice.
(a.) Not under the influence or control of the will; not voluntary; as, the involuntary movements of the body; involuntary muscle fibers.
(a.) Not proceeding from choice; done unwillingly; reluctant; compulsory; as, involuntary submission.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aggressive behavior during acute involuntary admission was related to ratings on the Brief Psychopathological Rating Scale, age, sex and global assessment in 38 patients.
(2) 93% (non-smokers 99%, smokers 84%) felt that involuntary smoking should be restricted in the workplace and 99% (non-smokers 99%, smokers 97%) felt that it should be restricted in the canteens.
(3) Hemimasticatory spasm is a rare disorder of the trigeminal nerve that produces involuntary jaw closure due to paroxysmal unilateral contraction of jaw-closing muscles.
(4) and involuntary fetal wastage, HLA-A, B compatibility between husband and wife was studied in a group of 77 couples with known obstetric histories.
(5) Urodynamic study of the ileal neobladder showed a low pressure (mean 15.3 cm water) and no involuntary pressure spikes in the neobladder.
(6) About 15% of patients fail to respond to initial antibiotic therapy, 20% experience recurrences, 20% develop involuntary infertility, and 8% of post-PID patients who conceive have an ectopic pregnancy.
(7) Idiopathic torsion dystonia (ITD) is characterized by sustained, involuntary muscle contractions, frequently causing twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures.
(8) "Enuresis risoria" or "giggle incontinence" is a particular condition characterized by a sudden, involuntary, uncontrollable and complete emptying of the bladder during giggling or hearty laughter.
(9) Phenytoin-induced involuntary movements have not been described previously in a case with such a small parasaggital tumour treated with phenytoin at a serum concentration of therapeutic range.
(10) Tremor refers to an involuntary, rhythmic, oscillatory movement of a body part.
(11) Although little change in either mental status or involuntary movements was observed within the 3 weeks following the withdrawal of haloperidol, marked deterioration in mental status and involuntary movements occurred within 1 week of withdrawal of clozapine.
(12) The occurrence of this and related syndromes suggests that inherited, slowly progressive myoclonus, chorea, and dystonia, alone or in combination, should be viewed as a spectrum of hyperkinetic involuntary movements, and that each motor component may represent variable expression of the same genetic defect.
(13) Muscle atrophy, involuntary movements or associated movements in the facial muscles on the side of the anastomosis, which are frequent during spontaneous regeneration, were never observed.
(14) The level of involuntary dehydration is approximately proportional to the degree of total stress imposed on the body.
(15) In the elderly, there are two main types of abnormal involuntary movements: tremors on one hand and dyskinesias on the other.
(16) This paper describes this unexpected, involuntary intervention in patient care in the Department of Geriatric Medicine.
(17) The first case was a premature female infant who developed involuntary twist movements of the left arm, persistent plantar flexion and eversion of the left foot at age of 7 months.
(18) The pharmacokinetics of tetrabenazine and a metabolite, hydroxytetrabenazine, have been investigated in seven patients being treated for involuntary movement disorders.
(19) This involuntary muscle activity was attributed to fusimotor and postural reflexes.
(20) Tardive dyskinesia is a potentially irreversible syndrome of involuntary hyperkinetic movements that occur in predisposed persons receiving extended neuroleptic (antipsychotic) drug therapy.