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myriachit, miryachit (s) (noun)
1. A form of a bizarre repetitive and widespread habit spasm affecting many members of a community, often in an imitative way: "Myriachit has been described as a peculiar disorder in Java, Borneo, and in parts of Russia in which the patient mimics everything done or said by another person."

2. Etymology: Russian, "to be epileptic"; from Greek myrios, "countless".
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