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bradykinesia

bradykinesia

9.1
A condition that makes body movements unusually slow, often in Parkinson's disease
  • noun
  • /ˌbrædɪˈkaɪniə/
  • Specialized
translation icon : bradicinesia
  • Patients with Parkinson's disease often experience bradykinesia, making it difficult for them to initiate movements.
  • bradykinesia severity
  • bradykinesia detection
  • bradykinesia assessment

Examples

  • Its clinical relevance relies on the fact that bradykinesia is the symptom that best correlates with dopaminergic deficiency.

    Academic text (2016)
  • During low dopamine-level periods, patients show the bradykinesia severity that corresponds to their disease stage.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The experiment was also designed with the aim of gathering signals both with and without bradykinesia for each patient.

    Academic text (2016)
  • More specifically, they estimated bradykinesia-related items with an average error of 1.7%.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Additionally, the presented method is capable of monitoring bradykinesia without specific motion exercises and with high accuracy.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Therefore, the UPDRS factor that covers bradykinesia assessment is factor I, and it is included in the analysis.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Section 3 is devoted to describing the signal processing and machine learning approach to analyze bradykinesia.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Furthermore, the objective measures of bradykinesia in this study did not show any relationship with the score of the UPDRS.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The next section presents several studies in which bradykinesia was assessed based on wearable sensors.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The results showed correlations up to 0.71 with the bradykinesia UPDRS scores.

    Academic text (2016)

Antonyms

hyperkinesis
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A condition that makes a person move too much and have trouble staying still

How Fast

hyperkinetic
1 8.4
normal
1.0
bradykinesia
  • Specialized
9.1
akinesia
  • Specialized
9.9

Surface Forms

bradykinesia singular
bradykinesias plural

Morphology

bradykinesia = kinesis (opaque) = brady + kinesia

The prefix 'brady-' means slow, and 'kinesis' refers to movement, but the medical context and specific meaning are not transparent to non-specialists.

Etymology

The word bradykinesia is made of two parts: brady- meaning 'slow' and kinesis meaning 'movement'. So, bradykinesia refers to 'very slow movement', a common problem in conditions like Parkinson's disease.