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athetosis

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athetosis [‚ath·ə′tō·səs]
(medicine)
Slow, recurrent, involuntary wormlike movements of various parts of the body associated with lesions of the basal ganglia.


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Chapter 5 is titled "Movement Disorders With Dystonia or Athetosis as the Main Clinical Manifestation.
His diagnoses include spastic guadriparesis, athetosis of the right arm, cerebral palsy, progressive scoliosis, and mental retardation.
7 Symptomatic torsion dystonia Athetoid cerebral palsy [Vogt's disease]; double athetosis (syndrome) 343 Infantile cerebral palsy 345 Epilepsy 345.
 
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