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hemiballismus

noun hemi·bal·lis·mus \ˌhem-i-ba-ˈliz-məs\

Medical Definition of HEMIBALLISMUS

:  violent uncontrollable movements of one lateral half of the body usually due to a lesion in the subthalamic nucleus of the contralateral side of the body

Variants of HEMIBALLISMUS

hemi·bal·lis·mus also hemi·bal·lism \-ˈbal-iz-əm\

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