Diadochokinesia or diadochokinesis is the ability to make antagonistic movements in quick succession, alternately bringing a limb into opposite positions, as of flexion and extension or of pronation and supination. Speech-language pathology defines it as the speed necessary to stop a determined motor impulse and substitute it with its opposite. Th...
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Diadochokinesis ... The normal power of alternately bringing a limb into opposite positions, as of flexion and extention or of pronation and supination. ... Synonym: diadochocinesia. ... Origin: G. Diadochos, working in turn, + kinesis, movement ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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(di-ad″ә-ko-kĭ-ne´zhә) the function of arresting one motor impulse and substituting one that is diametrically opposite, to permit sequential alternating movements, as pronation and supination of the arm.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: dī-ad′ō-kō-ki-nē′zē-ă, -ki-nē′sis Definitions: 1. The normal capacity to bring a limb alternately into opposite positions, as in flexion and extention or pronation and supination. Synonyms: diadochocinesia
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the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
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