kine-, kin-, kino-, kinesio-, kinesi-, kineto-, kinet-, -kinesia, -kinesis, -kinetic, -kinesias, -kineses, -kinetical, -kinetically
(Greek: move, set in motion; muscular activity)
akinesis
1. Motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis.
2. Absence, poverty, or lack of control of voluntary muscle movements.
3. In pharmacology, the temporary paralysis of a muscle by the injection of procaine.
akinete
akinetic
Without movement, or without much movement.
A term used in neurology to denote the absence (or poverty) of movement.
akinetopsia
1. Motion blindness or an inability to perceive motion, despite stationary objects remaining more or less visible, due to brain damage disrupting input to the dorsal pathway.
2. A rare neuropsychological disorder, meaning it is a disorder between the nervous system and mental functions, or in this case between the brain and perception.
In this kind of disorder, the person affected by it cannot perceive motion. It may be caused by disruption to the cortical area in the middle temporal lobe.
It can also be caused as a side effect of certain antidepressant drugs, a result of damage by a stroke, or by certain brain surgeries.
allokinesia, allokinesis
1. Passive or involuntary movement; drifting.
2. The involuntary copying in one limb of a voluntary movement in the opposite limb.
allokinetic
1. Moving passively; drifting, as plankton.
2. Pertaining to passive or reflex movement.
anaesthekinesia, anesthekinesia
The loss of sensibility and motor power or bodily movements.
anakinetic
anesthekinesia, anesthecinesia
1. The paralysis of motion accompanied by the loss of motor power or sensibility.
2. Lacking proper movement
3. A combined sensory and motor paralysis.
Nothing begins, and nothing ends,
That is not paid with moan;
For we are born in others’ pain,
And perish in our own.
-Francis Thompson
angiocardiokinetic
1. Affecting the motions or movements of the heart and blood vessels.
2. Any agent that affects the movements of the heart and vessels.
angiokinesis
1. Relating to, causing, or regulating constriction or dilation of blood vessels.
2. Change in the caliber of a blood vessel; also, vasomotion or vasomotor.
angiokinetic
Relating to, causing, or regulating constriction or dilation of blood vessels.
anthropokinetics
1. The study of the total human being in action, with integrated applications from the special fields of the biological and physical sciences, psychology, and sociology.
2. The study of mankind in action in biological, physical, and sociological terms.
archeokinetic
Denoting or relating to a primitive type of motor nerve mechanism, such as is found in the peripheral and the ganglionic nervous systems.
arthrokinetic
Related "move, motion" word units:
cine-;
mobil-;
mot-, mov-;
oscillo-;
seismo-;
vibro-.