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

1. Absence or a lack of movements: "Acinesia is a partial or total loss of muscle movements because of peripheral or central nervous system abnormalities."

"The woman's acinesia was most obvious when she was trying to swim."

2. An absence of or a decrease of voluntary motion that may range from moderate inactivity to almost complete immobility: "The doctor warned the patient that prolonged use of the wheelchair could result in acinesia of her legs."

"With insects, akinesia is a lack of immobility that can be caused by damage to or a loss of sensory organs; such as, the antennae."

Excessive motility; an abnormal freedom of movement; also acrocinesis.

1. Loss of the power to perform rapid alternating movements: "This symptom of adiadochocinesia is indicative of a disorder of the cerebellum or its tracts."

"Adiadochokinesis involves the inability to stop one movement and then to follow it immediately with another motion in the opposite direction."

2. The inability to perform rapid alternating movements of one or more of the body's extremities: "Adiadochocinesis is sometimes requested by physicians during physical examinations so they can determine if the patient has any neurological problems."

The mobilization of fat in the body, often with the liberation of free fatty acids into the blood plasma.

A substance or factor that causes movement of stored lipid (fat).

1. Loss of deep pressure sensibility or of position and joint perception.
2. Inability to perceive movement or position.
3. Absence of the sense of perception of movement or of the muscular sense.

A descriptive term for akinaesthesia, akinesthesia or the absence or loss of movement (kinesthesia).

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.