Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Dyskinesia |
DyskinesiaNoun1. Abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Impairment of the power of voluntary movement, resulting in fragmentary or incomplete movements. (references) |
Medicine | A form of co-ordination neurosis resulting from a prolonged and intense stimulation of the motor centres(1). Source: European Union. (references) |
| The abnormal, involuntary, choreoathetoid movements of muscles of the head, limbs, and trunk. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Dyskinesia |
| Specialty definitions using "dyskinesia": Citalopram ♦ Dyskinesias ♦ Postcholecystectomy Syndrome ♦ Tetrabenazine. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dyskinesia" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Danish (dyskinesia, jerky movements). |
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | There is no standard treatment for tardive dyskinesia. (references) | |
Tardive dyskinesia is a neurological syndrome caused by the long-term use of neuroleptic drugs. (references) | ||
The NINDS conducts and supports a broad range of research on movement disorders including tardive dyskinesia. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dyskinesia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dyskinesia" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "dyskinesia": tardive dyskinesia. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "dyskinesia": Anti-Dyskinesia. | |
Containing "dyskinesia": Anti-Dyskinesia Agents. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tardive dyskinesia | 133 |
dyskinesia | 51 |
biliary dyskinesia | 27 |
ciliary dyskinesia primary | 4 |
dyskinesia neuroleptics tardive | 3 |
dyskinesia tardive treatment | 3 |
dyskinesia symptom tardive | 3 |
vioxx dyskinesia | 2 |
ciliary dyskinesia | 2 |
biliary dyskinesia symptom | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dyskinesia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dyskinesia (jerky movements). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | dyskinesie (and trunk, choreoathetoid movements of muscles of the head, involuntary, limbs, the abnormal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | dyskinesia (and trunk, choreoathetoid movements of muscles of the head, involuntary, limbs, the abnormal), soittajan kramppi (musician's cramp, musician's neurosis, musicians'cramp), pakkoliike (and trunk, choreoathetoid movements of muscles of the head, involuntary, limbs, the abnormal), liikuntahäiriö (and trunk, choreoathetoid movements of muscles of the head, involuntary, limbs, the abnormal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dyskinésie des musiciens, dyskinésie, crampe des musiciens. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dyskinesie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κράμπα των μουσικών (musician's cramp, musician's neurosis, musicians'cramp), δυσκινησία των οργανοπαικτών (musician's cramp, musician's neurosis, musicians'cramp), δυσκινησία (slowness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | discinesia (and trunk, choreoathetoid movements of muscles of the head, involuntary, limbs, the abnormal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 운동 장 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yskinesiaday discinesia. (various references) disquinesia de los músicos (musician's cramp, musician's neurosis, musicians'cramp), discinesia (and trunk, choreoathetoid movements of muscles of the head, involuntary, limbs, the abnormal). (various references) arm-eller handkramp samt koordinationsrubbningar hos musiker;ofta funktionella besvär i form av en symptomneuros (musician's cramp, musician's neurosis, musicians'cramp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dyskinesia": dyskinesias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-k-n-s-s-y" | |
-2 letters: kyanised, kyanises. | |
-3 letters: daisies, dinkeys, dinkies, insides, kidneys, kinases, kinesis, kyanise, saiyids. | |
-4 letters: anises, asides, daises, dassie, diesis, dinkey, indies, inside, kidney, kinase, kissed, kneads, niseis, sained, saiyid, sanies, sansei, sayids, sedans, seisin, siskin, skeans, skeins, snaked, snakes, snakey, sneaks, sneaky, yanked. | |
-5 letters: aides, anise, aside, asked, assed, ayins, daisy, deans, desks, dikes, dikey. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-k-n-s-s-y" | |
+1 letter: dyskinesias. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
