athetosis

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The differential diagnosis of athetosis is generally easily made.

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  1. In pathology, a condition in which the hands and feet cannot be maintained in any position in which they are placed, but continually perform involuntary, slow, irregular movements.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἄθετος, without place (see athetize), + -osis.
 

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