amimia
See also: amimią
English
editEtymology
editAncient Greek [Term?]
Noun
editamimia (countable and uncountable, plural amimias)
- (medicine) inability to express oneself using gestures
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
- Parkinsonism, at its severest, presents itself as an akinetic amimia (as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias).
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editPolish
editEtymology
editFrom a- + Ancient Greek μῑμέομαι (mīméomai) + -ia.[1] First attested in 1879.[2]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editamimia f
Declension
editDeclension of amimia
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editadjective
adverb
noun
References
edit- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “amimia”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Adolf Kussmaul (1879) Zboczenia mowy : próba patologii mowy : przekład dzieła: Die Störungen der Sprache, Versuch einer Pathologie der Sprache[1] (in Polish), page V
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- Hyphenation: a‧mi‧mi‧a
Noun
editamimia f (uncountable)
- (psychiatry) amimia (inability to express oneself using gestures)
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