jactitation
- noun
- /ˌdʒæk.tɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
- Specialized
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jactitación
- During the examination, the doctor noted the jactitation of the limbs.
Examples
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The patient's jactitation kept nurses on constant alert throughout the night.
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During a high fever, jactitation may become pronounced and alarming to observers.
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Doctors noted persistent jactitation as a sign of the patient's worsening condition.
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The patient exhibited signs of jactitation throughout the night.
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Doctors noted persistent jactitation as a sign of the patient's worsening condition.
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During a high fever, jactitation may become pronounced and alarming to observers.
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The patient's jactitation kept nurses on constant alert throughout the night.
Synonyms
Severe restless tossing and twitching of the body in very ill people
Antonyms
How Restless
Surface Forms
Morphology
jactitation = jactitate (opaque) = jactit + ation
The noun is built on a rare learned stem, so the medical sense is not readily recoverable for an average learner from familiar English parts.
Etymology
Jactitation comes from the Latin jactare 'to toss' and the older iacere 'to throw', the same root you see in English words like eject and project that mean 'throw'. So in medicine jactitation describes the body being 'tossed' about by restless jerks.