What's the difference between athetosis and involuntary?

Athetosis


Definition:

  • (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.