athetosis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄθετος (áthetos, “not fixed”), itself from τίθημι (títhēmi).

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

series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs

• Czech: atetóza f
• Finnish: atetoosi
• German: Athetose (de) f
• Polish: atetoza f
• Portuguese: atetose (pt)

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “athetosis”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “ἄθετος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Further reading

• “athetosis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• athetosis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• thiasotes