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Athetosis

Slow, involuntary, convoluted, writhing movements of the fingers, hands, toes, and feet and in some cases, arms, legs, neck and tongue

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    Typical gaits and foot exercises.

    | Date: 1931
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    Use of a polygraph to measure spastic activity in athetoid patients / Sylvia Rapp and Charles H. Carter.

    Rapp, Sylvia. | Date: 1966
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    On athetosis, or imbecility with ataxia / by T. Clay [sic] Shaw.

    Shaw, Thomas Claye, 1840-1926. | Date: [1873]
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    Typical gaits and foot exercises.

    | Date: 1931
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    Cases of athetosis / by Francis Warner.

    Warner, Francis, 1847-1926. | Date: [1880?]

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