athetosis
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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἄθετος (áthetos, “not fixed”), itself from τίθημι (títhēmi).
Noun
athetosis (countable and uncountable, plural athetoses)
- (medicine) A series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs, typically bilateral and symmetric and predominantly affecting the distal parts of the limbs.
Derived terms
Translations
series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “athetosis”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “ἄθετος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
