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Definition: Athetosis |
AthetosisNoun1. A continuous succession of slow writing involuntary movements of the hands and feet and other body parts. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Athetosis \Ath`e*to"sis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression not fixed; 'a priv. to set.]. (Websters 1913) |
"Athetosis" is a common misspelling or typo for: asbestosis, athleticism, athletics. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A derangement marked by ceaseless occurrence of slow, sinuous, writhing movements, especially severe in the hands, and performed involuntarily; it may occur after hemiplegia, and is then known as posthemiplegic chorea. Called also mobile spasm. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Symptoms of the disorder may include motor function deterioration, dementia, mental retardation, spastic paralysis, dysarthria (poorly articulated speech), spasticity (stiffness of the limbs), ocular (eye) impairments, and athetosis (involuntary, writhing movements). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Athetosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Athetosis" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
athetosis | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "athetosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | athetose, atetose, Hammond's syndrom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | athetose (posthemiplegic chorea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | athétose, athésie, mouvements athétosiques. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Athetose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | νόσος του Hammond, αθέτωσις. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | atetosi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | athetosisay atetose. (various references) atetosis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "athetosis" (pronounced 'Ath`e*to"sis'): Absis, Actinomycosis, Adenosclerosis, AEsthesis, Agennesis, Albuminosis, Amanuensis, Amaurosis, Amitosis, Ampelopsis, Amphiarthrosis, Anacoenosis, Anacrusis, Anadiplosis, Anaesthesis, Anamnesis, Anastomosis, Anemosis, Angioneurosis, Antanaclasis, Anthesis, Anthracosis, Antiptosis, Antipyresis, Antisepsis, Aponeurosis, Aposiopesis, apsis, Archebiosis, Arsis, Arteriosclerosis, Arthrosis, Asepsis, Autokinesis, Auxesis, Basis, Biognosis, Calliopsis, Cardiosclerosis, Cariopsis, Caryopsis, Catachresis, Chemosis, Chlorosis, Chromidrosis, Cillosis, Cirrhosis, Classis, Coenesthesis, Coreopsis. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-o-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: atheists, hastiest, staithes. | |
-2 letters: ashiest, atheist, sottish, staithe, theists. | |
-3 letters: hastes, heists, hoises, hoists, hostas, saithe, shiest, shoats, shotes, shotts, siesta, states, stoats, tasset, tassie, tastes, testis, theist, thesis, thetas, tithes, toasts, toshes. | |
-4 letters: ashes, asset, easts, ethos, haets, haste, hates, heats, heist, hests, hists, hoise, hoist, hoses, hosta, hosts, iotas, oases, oasis, oasts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-o-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: heliostats. | |
+2 letters: hemostatics, hesitations, stephanotis, throatiness. | |
+3 letters: anorthosites, antistrophes, astonishment, hypostatizes, osteopathies, sophisticate, thiosulfates. | |
+4 letters: astonishments, attorneyships, hematologists, hospitalities, scholasticate, sophisticated, sophisticates, spectatorship, stephanotises, stratospheric, tachistoscope, throatinesses, triphosphates. | |
+5 letters: chrestomathies, ethnobotanists, orchestrations, osteoarthritis, postmastership, scholasticates, spectatorships, tachistoscopes, thermoplastics, tracheostomies. | |
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