Definition of Hyperkinesias

1. hyperkinesia [n] - See also: hyperkinesia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperkinesias

hyperkeratoses
hyperkeratosis
hyperkeratosis congenita
hyperkeratosis eccentrica
hyperkeratosis figurata centrifuga atrophica
hyperkeratosis lenticularis perstans
hyperkeratosis subungualis
hyperkeratotic
hyperketonaemia
hyperketonuria
hyperkinaemia
hyperkineses
hyperkinesia
hyperkinesias (current term)
hyperkinesis
hyperkinetic
hyperkinetic dysarthria
hyperkinetic heart syndrome
hyperkinetic syndrome
hyperkinetically
hyperkyphosis
hyperkyphotic
hyperkähler
hyperlactation
hyperlegible
hyperlens
hyperleukocytosis
hyperlexia

Literary usage of Hyperkinesias

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The tonic spasms in cerebellar lesions have been described under the hyperkinesias (qv}. Occurrence.—Cerebellar ataxia occurs in a variety of conditions. ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1903)
"... ago formulated the theory that the localization of the irritation giving rise to "clonic involuntary hyperkinesias" should be found in the basal ganglia ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1903)
"The author some years ago formulated the theory that the localization of the irritation giving rise to "clonic involuntary hyperkinesias" should be found in ..."

4. Contributions to Medical and Biological Research by William Osler (1919)
"in the classification of the hyperkinesias by mistaken interpretations. Oppenheim insisted on a close analogy of symptoms, and in fact discarded other ..."

5. The Theory of Schizophrenic Negativism by Eugen Bleuler (1912)
""Under special circumstances this seclusion may be overcome as in the acute hyperkinesias, in which the movements result from an impulse, and in paranoids, ..."

6. Diseases of Children by Abraham Jacobi (1910)
"... at all ages there arises in infancy—and particularly at a quite definite period—a second group of hyperkinesias which play a much more dominant role, ..."

7. Manual of the Diseases of Children by John Madison Taylor, William Hughes Wells (1901)
"These hyperkinesias or exaggerations of movement may follow other states than paralysis, as the athetoid movements in the fourth of Freud's di- plegic types ..."

8. A Textbook of Nervous Diseases for Students and Practicing Physicians: In by Robert Bing, Charles Lewis Allen (1921)
"C. Muscular Spasms In the large group of symptoms of motor irritation (hyperkinesias) which we denominate "cramps" or "spasms," two categories are to be ..."

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