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PSYCHOMOTOR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characterizing mental events that have motor consequences or vice versa

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

idea (the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about)

reaction (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent)

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 Context examples: 

Signs and symptoms include psychomotor retardation, dysostosis multiplex, and neural disturbances.

(Fucosidosis, NCI Thesaurus)

An anticonvulsant used to control grand mal and psychomotor or focal seizures.

(Carbamazepine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A subtype of schizophrenia characterized by a psychomotor disturbance that may involve motoric immobility, excessive motor activity, extreme negativism or mutism, peculiarities of voluntary movement, echolalia, and/or echopraxia.

(Catatonic Type Schizophrenia, NCI Thesaurus)

CHS may be associated with hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, anemia, thrombocytopenia, roentgenologic changes in bones, lungs and heart, and skin and psychomotor abnormalities; it is often fatal in childhood as a result of infection or an accelerated lymphoma-like phase.

(Chediak-Higashi Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)