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PSYCHOMOTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psychomotor mean? 

PSYCHOMOTOR (adjective)
  The adjective PSYCHOMOTOR has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characterizing mental events that have motor consequences or vice versaplay

  Familiarity information: PSYCHOMOTOR used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PSYCHOMOTOR (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)


 Context examples 


It is characterized by the presence of growth and psychomotor retardation, broad nasal bridge, low set ears, strabismus, trigonocephaly, and thrombocytopenia.

(Jacobsen Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by psychomotor developmental delays and ophthalmologic abnormalities.

(Mucolipidosis Type IV, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include low birth weight, craniofacial malformations, hands and feet malformations, and mental and psychomotor retardation.

(Monosomy 13q Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Hamilton Depression Rating Scale 21 Item (HAMD-21) Retardation; psychomotor (slowness of thought and speech, impaired ability to concentrate, decreased motor activity).

(HAMD-21 - Retardation, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include developmental delay, psychomotor deterioration, and growth failure.

(I-Cell Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by psychomotor retardation, growth retardation, ataxia, seizures, hepatomegaly with steatosis and hypothyroidism.

(Carbohydrate-Deficient Glycoprotein Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Also, a range of cognitive tests were performed related to short-term memory, verbal comprehension and knowledge, psychomotor speed, visual processing, long-term storage and retrieval, and cognitive processing speed.

(Brain benefits of aerobic exercise lost to mercury exposure, NIH)

As a result, flumazenil reverses benzodiazepine-induced effects including sedation, psychomotor deficits, amnesia, and hypoventilation in a dose-dependent manner.

(Flumazenil, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include psychomotor retardation, ataxia, recurrent fevers, skin rash, hepatosplenomegaly, and lymphadenopathy.

(Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

Chromosomal rearrangements affecting the gene may be associated with epileptic encephalopathy with spastic tetraparesis and severe psychomotor retardation associated with cerebral atrophy, developmental delay with recurrent infections or lymphoma.

(NKAIN2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)



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