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atheosis

English

Noun

atheosis

  1. Misspelling of athetosis.

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athetosis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (áthetos, not fixed), itself from ?????? (títh?mi).

Noun

athetosis (countable and uncountable, plural athetoses)

  1. (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

  • athetoid
  • athetosic

Translations

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “athetosis”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
  • ?????? in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Further reading

  • athetosis at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • athetosis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • thiasotes

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