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What does hyperkinesis mean?

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Noun
  1. (pathology) Abnormally increased and sometimes uncontrollable activity or muscular movements.
  2. (pathology) A condition especially of childhood characterized by hyperactivity.
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As these signs may be absent where numerous tests convincingly demonstrate pylorospasm, we must conclude that there is no essential interrelation between obstruction at the pylorus and hyperkinesis.
Symptoms but not impact fell significantly in children with hyperkinesis.
Various terms were coined to describe this behaviour, among them minimal brain damage and hyperkinesis.
Childhood psychopathology is often persistent, particularly among children with conduct disorder and hyperkinesis.
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.
Of the remainder, just under one in five had confirmed hyperkinesis.

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