bradykinesia
- noun
- /ˌbrædɪˈkaɪniə/
- Specialized
- Patients with Parkinson's disease often experience bradykinesia, making it difficult for them to initiate movements.
- bradykinesia severity
- bradykinesia detection
- bradykinesia assessment
Examples
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Its clinical relevance relies on the fact that bradykinesia is the symptom that best correlates with dopaminergic deficiency.
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During low dopamine-level periods, patients show the bradykinesia severity that corresponds to their disease stage.
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The experiment was also designed with the aim of gathering signals both with and without bradykinesia for each patient.
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More specifically, they estimated bradykinesia-related items with an average error of 1.7%.
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Additionally, the presented method is capable of monitoring bradykinesia without specific motion exercises and with high accuracy.
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Therefore, the UPDRS factor that covers bradykinesia assessment is factor I, and it is included in the analysis.
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Section 3 is devoted to describing the signal processing and machine learning approach to analyze bradykinesia.
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Furthermore, the objective measures of bradykinesia in this study did not show any relationship with the score of the UPDRS.
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The next section presents several studies in which bradykinesia was assessed based on wearable sensors.
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The results showed correlations up to 0.71 with the bradykinesia UPDRS scores.
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Antonyms
- Specialized
A condition that makes a person move too much and have trouble staying still
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Surface Forms
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.