athetosis

English

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

athetosis (countable and uncountable, plural athetoses)

(medicine) A series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs, typically bilateral and symmetric and predominantly affecting the distal parts of the limbs.

series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs

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

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