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The differential diagnosis of athetosis is generally easily made.— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
So-called post-hemiplegic chorea is, in the opinion of both Hammond and Gray, simply athetosis.— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
n. hardening of the inner lining of the arteries with fatty degeneration. atheromatous, athetosis— xml's Blinklist.com
According to Drewry "athetosis is a cerebral affection, presenting a combination of symptoms characterized chiefly by a more or less constant mobility of the extremities and an inability to retain them in any fixed position.— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The silly, dancing, posturing, wiry movements, and the facial distortion observed in Huntington's chorea would hardly be mistaken by a careful observer for athetosis.— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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