What does catatonus mean?
Catatonus means (medicine) catatonia; rigidity of the body.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(medicine) catatonia; rigidity of the body.
The catatonus of the patient is sometimes remarkably demonstrable in the expression of the symptom known as waxy flexibility (cerea flexibilitas).
The older literature is full of vivid accounts of feverish somnolent illnesses followed, within months or years, by the development of characteristic slowness, poverty, and difficulty of movement, masking, rigidity, tremors, and, on occasion, torticollis, dystonias, oculogyria, strabismus, blepharoclonus, myoclonus, catatonus, somnolence, etc., etc.
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Catatonus means (medicine) catatonia; rigidity of the body.
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The catatonus of the patient is sometimes remarkably demonstrable in the expression of the symptom known as waxy flexibility (cerea flexibilitas).
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