motor deficit
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmotoranddeficit
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motor
noun[C]
uk/ˈməʊ.tər/us/ˈmoʊ.t̬ɚ/
a device that changes electricity or fuel into movement and makes a ...
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deficit
noun[C]
uk/ˈdef.ɪ.sɪt/us/ˈdef.ə.sɪt/
the total amount by which money spent is more than ...
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(Definition ofmotoranddeficitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The patients were usually incontinent for several days, but themotordeficitwas usually mild.
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Specifically,motordeficithas been the primary concern of neurology, whereas abnormalities in socioemotional behavior have been the main focus of psychiatry and clinical psychology.
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Therefore, we could not find evidence for impaired pursuit initiation in the foveopetal task in our patient groups, which makes a purely frontalmotordeficitunlikely.
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Although they were unable to have full motor capability, they were able to prevent a more severemotordeficitby living in an enriched environment.
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Most neurological patients had motor deficits on the contralateral side to their lesions at the time of illness onset.
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Yet, when compared to other lines of investigation, there have been relatively few empirical studies of the motor deficits associated with schizophrenia.
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The loss of myelin manifests with a variety of motor deficits, depending on the site of the damage.
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It can occur, although rarely, in older adults, causing pure, asymmetrical motor deficits in random nerve territories predominantly affecting the upper limbs.
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However, subcortical diseases also cause linguistic and cognitive deficits, including syntax comprehension deficits that cannot be attributed to non-linguistic motor deficits.
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At admission, 13% of the patients had impaired consciousness, 32% had aphasia, and 68% had motor deficits.
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Todd's paresis, as defined as anymotordeficitafter seizure, occurs in 13% of all seizures.
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Typically, subjects would use this mode as their primary exercise mode when their motor deficits have been minimized and significant voluntary control has returned.
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This apparent coexistence of motor deficits and grammatical deficits, with a relative sparing of lexical memory, is consistent with a dysfunction of frontal/ basal-ganglia circuitry.
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Both types of motor deficits were coded as dichotomous variables: 0 if absent and 1 if present.
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At 4 days postsurgery the animals showed motor deficits resulting from cerebellar impairment.
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The hypothesis, however, acknowledges that the altered nonconscious processing may be responsible for the overt motor deficits of catatonia.
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A dysfunction of the frontal/basal-ganglia procedural memory system may explain this grammatical deficit as well as their motor deficits.
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It is certainly true, as they state, that further phenomenological and psychological information is necessary in order to elucidate the exact nature of the motor deficits.
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In this model of ataxia, the combination of motor imbalance and spatial incoordination in the absence of muscle weakness indicates that motor deficits might be related to cerebellar dysfunction.
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