Meanings
- uncountablemedicinecatatonia; rigidity of the body
The catatonus of the patient is sometimes remarkably demonstrable in the expression of the symptom known as waxy flexibility (cerea flexibilitas).
1947, Johannes Maagaard Nielsen, George Newton Thompson, The engrammes of psychiatry1 more example
The older literature is full of vivid accounts of feverish somnolent illnesses followed, within months or years, by the development of characteristic slowness, poverty, and difficulty of movement, masking, rigidity, tremors, and, on occasion, torticollis, dystonias, oculogyria, strabismus, blepharoclonus, myoclonus, catatonus, somnolence, etc., etc.
1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
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