AKINESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does akinesia mean? 

• AKINESIA (noun)
  The noun AKINESIA has 1 sense:

1. motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis

  Familiarity information: AKINESIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AKINESIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

akinesia; akinesis

Hypernyms ("akinesia" is a kind of...):

palsy; paralysis (loss of the ability to move a body part)

 Context examples 

A rare congenital disorder, this is the lethal variant of multiple pterygium syndrome, characterized by severe athrogryposis, pterygium, akinesia and often hydrops fetalis and cystic hygroma.

(Lethal Multiple Pterygium Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

The clinical manifestations include changes in the muscle tone, dyskinesia, and akinesia.

(Extrapyramidal Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)