dysmimia

plural dysmimias

1. countableuncountableAn inability to use gestures effectively

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   The terms used to indicate special varieties of aberration are as follows: Aphaemia or ap[h]thongia, loss of power to articulate; agraphia, inability to write or to understand writing; amimia or dysmimia, cessation of the faculty both to make and understand gestures formerly well understood and familiar, also word blindness and word deafness.

   1894 January 28, Lyman Watkins, “Aphasia and Allied States”, in The Eclectic Medical Journal, volume 54, page 10