different between athetosis vs atherosis

English

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

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.

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

athero- +? -osis

atherosis (countable and uncountable, plural atheroses)

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