(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.
Symmetric
Definition:
(a.) Symmetrical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(2) In one patient, the pretibial myxedema developed symmetrically half a year after the appearance of endocrine exophthalmos.
(3) 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.
(4) For trials in which the target was present in the array, RT functions were roughly symmetric, the shortest RTs being for extreme distractor ratios, and the longest RTs being for arrays in which there were an equal number of each distractor type.
(5) Symmetrical cases (the so-called siamese twins) have an obvious predominance (92.3%).
(6) Sedimentation-velocity experiments indicate the M. elsdenii enzyme (s20,w = 4.95 S) to be essentially globular, while the D. vulgaris enzyme (s20,w = 4.1 S) has a less symmetric shape.
(7) The Soret MCD of the reduced protein is interpreted as th sum of two MCD curves: an intense, asymmetric MCD band very similar to that exhibited by deoxymyoglobin which we assign to paramagnetic high spin cytochrome a3(2+) and a weaker, more symmetric MCD contribution, which is attributed to diamagnetic low spin cytochrome a2+.
(8) In the perineuronal neuropil of large pyramidal neurons (layers V-VI) there appear symmetric synapses with pyramidal cells, dendritic processes and dendritic spines.
(9) After injection of HRP-WGA into the contralateral hippocampus 2% of hilar NPY-i neurons were retrogradely labeled and symmetric NPY-i synapses were found on the cell bodies and dendrites of unstained HRP-WGA labeled neurons.
(10) Pompholyx (Dyshidrosis) is a disease of unknown etiology presenting as symmetrical, vesicular hand and foot dermatitis.
(11) In the degradation reaction, formation of the symmetrically substituted citrate ester of codeine, 1, was found to predominate.
(12) The symmetrical reagent 5,5'-dithiobis-(1-methyltetrazole) activates mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase approximately 4-fold, whereas the smaller related compound methyl l-methyltetrazol-5-yl disulphide is a potent inactivator.
(13) We studied the effect of symmetric, biphasic sinusoidal electromagnetic fields (EMF) (20 Hz, 6 mT) on the differentiation of normal human skin fibroblasts (HH-8), normal human lung fibroblasts (WI38), and SV40-transformed human lung fibroblasts (WI38SV40) in in vitro cultures.
(14) According to X2 (Chi-square) test and asymmetry coefficient (beta 1) it was pointed out that the distribution of menarche in examined schoolgirls was normal and symmetric.
(15) The effect of luminal chloride addition was examined in tubules perfused symmetrically with chloride-free solutions.
(16) Any patient with a fairly symmetrical 'quiet' eye disease, especially if congenital, should be suspected of having an hereditary disease--presumably due to a recessive gene, even if the parents are not consanguineous, but possibly due to a mutation which could prove dominant; a search of the literature in such cases is useful.
(17) In all of the old rats, but not in any of the young ones, symmetric high voltage activity was observed in the frontal pole of the cortex.
(18) Flourescence characteristic of indolamine was seen in 5 pairs of symmetric neurons situated in the anterior part of the worm.
(19) The thiocarboxyl group reacts with diaryl disulfides to give an unsymmetrical acyl disulfide in dimethylformamide (DMF) and a symmetrical diacyl disulfide in aqueous DMF.
(20) The authors describe the radiographic appearance and the investigation techniques for circumscript lipoma in the subcutaneous tissue, in the muscles and for a large diffuse symmetric lipomatosis.