kinesioneurosis

plural kinesioneuroses

1. countablerareuncountableA neurotic disorder characterized by tics, spasms, or other abnormal motor activity.

   From this point of view all the diseases of the nervous system may be represented as disturbances of the motor functions or as kinesioneuroses.

   1881, J Ross, A treatise on the diseases of the nervous system

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   The neuroses of motion, or kinesioneuroses of the larynx, may be subdivided into spasm of the larynx, or hyperkinesis, and paralysis of the larynx or akinesis.

   1893, Charles Henry Burnett, System of Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat - Volume 2, page 674

   Neuroses are classed as kinesioneuroses, or disorders of motion; asthesioneuroses, or sensory disorders; trophoneuroses, or disorders of nutrition; thermoneuroses, or disorders of heat perception; vasomotor neuroses or angioneuroses, or disorders of the circulation; secretory neuroses; and mixed neuroses.

   1916, New International Encyclopedia - Volume 16, page 779

   The brains were from six individuals: a 25-week-old Chinese male postmortem fetus, a 28-week-old Chinese male postmortem fetus, a 23-year-old Chinese female who was dead of epileptic attack, a 73-year-old Chinese male dead of multiple system organ failure, a 74-year-old Chinese male dead of respiratory failure, and a^([sic]) 84-year-old Chinese male dead of kinesioneurosis and respiratory failure.

   2003 June, Wen Chen, Jianguo Ji, Xiaoman Xu, Sizhi He, Binggen Ru, “Proteomic comparison between human young and old brains by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and identification of proteins”, in International journal of developmental neuroscience, volume 21, number 4, page 210, column 2