kine-, kin-, kino-, kinesio-, kinesi-, kineto-, kinet-, -kinesia, -kinesis, -kinetic, -kinesias, -kineses, -kinetical, -kinetically

(Greek: move, set in motion; muscular activity)


hypokinetic
hypsokinesis
interkinesis
iridokinesis, iridokinesia
1. The contraction and expansion of the iris.
2. The movement of the iris in contracting and dilating the pupil.
iridokinetic
1. Relating to the movements of the iris.
2. A reference to iridokinesis.
isokinetic
Characterized by no disturbance to the speed and direction of a fluid when it is withdrawn as a sample from a flow.
kentrokinesia
kinaesthetic, kinesthetic
1. The sensation of position, movement, tension, etc. of parts of the body, perceived through nerve-end organs in muscles, tendons, and joints.
2. A system used to teach reading and spelling by means of the sensations perceived through movement and feeling; such as, following the written word with one’s finger in sand, on a rough paper towel, or on sandpaper; resulting in an automatic muscular response when one actually writes the word with pen or pencil.
kinanesthesia
A disturbance of deep sensibility in which there is the inability to perceive either direction, or the extent of movement, with the result being ataxia (failure of muscular coordination, irregularity of muscular action).
kineaesthesia
1. The sense perception of movement; the muscular sense.
2. An illusion of moving in space.
kinematics
The branch of mechanics or dynamics that deals with pure motion.
kinematograph
An apparatus for showing motion-picture films.
kinematography
A contrivance by which a series of instantaneous photographs taken in rapid succession can be projected on a screen with similar rapidity, so as to give a life-like reproduction of the original moving scene.
kinemia
kinemic

Related "move, motion" word units: cine-; mobil-; mot-, mov-; oscillo-; seismo-; vibro-.


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