kinesioneurosis

English

Noun

kinesioneurosis (plural kinesioneuroses)

1. (rare) A neurotic disorder characterized by tics, spasms, or other abnormal motor activity.
   • 1881, J Ross, A treatise on the diseases of the nervous system:

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

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

     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.

   • 1916, New International Encyclopedia - Volume 16, page 779:

     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.

   • 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:

     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 84-year-old Chinese male dead of kinesioneurosis and respiratory failure.