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dyskinesis

dyskinesis noun: a reduced ability to control and coordinate movement.

Noun

dyskinesis

  1. A reduced ability to control and coordinate movement
    • To rule out secondary causes of erythrocytosis, such as congenital heart disease with a right to left shunt, a transthoracic echocardiogram was performed, which showed normal left ventricular function with an apical area of dyskinesis and a large left ventricular apical thrombus measuring 3.0...2013 July 8, Dakshin Gangadharamurthy, Henry Shih, “Intracardiac thrombosis in polycythemia vera”, in BMJ Case Reports, volume 2013, →DOI

Origin of dyskinesis

From dys- + -kinesis.

Questions about dyskinesis

What does dyskinesis mean?
Dyskinesis means a reduced ability to control and coordinate movement.
What part of speech is dyskinesis?
Dyskinesis is a noun.

Words near dyskinesis in the dictionary

  1. dyskerin
  2. dyskertotic
  3. dyskinesia
  4. dyskinesias
  5. dyskinesiogenic
  6. dyskinesis
  7. dyskinetic
  8. dyskinetoplastic
  9. dyskinetoplastidy
  10. dyskinetoplasty
  11. dyskoimesis

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