echoplasia

English

echoplasia (uncountable)

Physically or mentally tracing the contours of objects, usually obsessively.^[1]^[2]

^ Ganos C, Ogrzal T, Schnitzler A, Münchau A (2012 September) “The pathophysiology of echopraxia/echolalia: relevance to Gilles de la Tourette syndrome”, in Mov. Disord., volume 27, number 10, →DOI, [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22807284 ��PMID], pages 1222–9
^ Kawohl W, Podoll K (2008) “Contour copying or echoplasia – a new echo phenomenon in a person with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome”, in Psychopathology‎^[1], volume 41, number 3, →DOI, [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18337631 ��PMID], archived from the original on 8 August 2021, pages 201–2