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akinesia Audio
a·ki·ne·sia [ ey-ki-nee-zhuh, -kahy- ]
Definitions related to akinesia:
  • Inability to initiate changes in activity or movement and to perform ordinary volitional movements rapidly and easily.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2025
  • Lack of physical movement, as in the extreme immobility of catatonic schizophrenia; may also occur as an extrapyramidal effect of antipsychotic medication.
    Sadock's Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry and Psychology
    BJ Sadock Titles Press, 2012
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