Meaning of kinesioneurosis | Babel Free

Definitions

A neurotic disorder characterized by tics, spasms, or other abnormal motor activity.

countable, rare, uncountable

Examples

“From this point of view all the diseases of the nervous system may be represented as disturbances of the motor functions or as kinesioneuroses.”

“The neuroses of motion, or kinesioneuroses of the larynx, may be subdivided into spasm of the larynx, or hyperkinesis, and paralysis of the larynx or akinesis.”

“Neuroses are classed as kinesioneuroses, or disorders of motion; asthesioneuroses, or sensory disorders; trophoneuroses, or disorders of nutrition; thermoneuroses, or disorders of heat perception; vasomotor neuroses or angioneuroses, or disorders of the circulation; secretory neuroses; and mixed neuroses.”

“The brains were from six individuals: a 25-week-old Chinese male postmortem fetus, a 28-week-old Chinese male postmortem fetus, a 23-year-old Chinese female who was dead of epileptic attack, a 73-year-old Chinese male dead of multiple system organ failure, a 74-year-old Chinese male dead of respiratory failure, and a^([sic]) 84-year-old Chinese male dead of kinesioneurosis and respiratory failure.”

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