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Answer for the clue "Abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements ", 10 letters:
dyskinesia

Word definitions for dyskinesia in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. impairment of voluntary movements resulting in fragmented or jerky motions

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
dyskinesia \dyskinesia\ n. an abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dyskinesia refers to a category of movement disorders that are characterized by involuntary muscle movements, including movements similar to tics or chorea and diminished voluntary movements. Dyskinesia can be anything from a slight tremor of the hands ...

Usage examples of dyskinesia.

Barring a miracle, Sojee would be stuck with schizophrenia and tardive dyskinesia as long as she lived.

The tardive dyskinesia had ceased with unconsciousness, and, relaxed, her face went from some caricature of madness to normalcy.

B-6 and tetrabenazine in the treatment of tardive dyskinesia and other hyperkinetic involuntary movements of the face.

Unable to quell the dyskinesias in my body, I had gotten out of bed, and careful not to disturb my wife, slipped out of the bedroom.

Eighteen hundred of Thorazine, no, go higher, switch to Haldol, ninety milligrams of it, well, that's the same as forty-five hundred of Thorazine, too high, how's his dyskinesia?

The first time he was barely awake and showing signs of tardive dyskinesia.

What we were seeing was something called TD, Tardive dyskinesia, a side effect of drugs.

Twelve pages, mostly medication notes signed by various psychiatrists, a few notations about the tardive dyskinesia: “.