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(medicine) A series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs, typically bilateral and symmetric and predominantly affecting the distal parts of the limbs..
Use athetosis when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Athetosis means (medicine) A series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs, typically bilateral and symmetric and predominantly affecting the distal parts of the limbs..
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