1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ATHETOSIS (Gr. Meraf, " without place "), the medical term applied to certain slow, purposeless, deliberate movements of the hands and feet. The fingers are separately flexed and extended, abducted and adducted in an entirely irregular way. The hands as a whole are also moved, and the arms, toes and feet may be affected. The condition is usually due to some lesion of the brain which has caused hemiplegia, and is especially common in childhood. It is occasionally congenital (so called), and is then due to some injur…
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- Vol. 2, pp. 846-846