| kinesipathist | A nonmedical person who treats disease by movements of various kinds. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| kinesipathy | <medicine> See Kinesiatrics. Origin: Gr. Motion + suffering. <medicine> See Kinesiatrics. Origin: Gr. Motion + to heal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| kinesis | <cell biology> Alteration in the movement of a cell, without any directional bias. Thus speed may increase or decrease (orthokinesis) or there may be an alteration in turning behaviour (klinokinesis). See: chemokinesis. (18 Nov 1997) |
| kinesitherapy | <medicine> See Kinesiatrics. Origin: Gr. Motion + to heal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| kineso- | See: kinesi-. (05 Mar 2000) |
| kinesodic | <physiology> Conveying motion; as; kinesodic substance; applied especially. To the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth voluntary and reflex motor impulses, without itself being affected by motor impulses applied to it directly. Origin: Gr. Motion + way: cf. F. Kinesodigue. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| kinesophobia | <psychology> Morbid fear of movement. Origin: G. Kinesis, movement, + phobos, fear (05 Mar 2000) |
| kinesthesia | 1. The sense perception of movement; the muscular sense. 2. An illusion of moving in space. Origin: G. Kinesis, motion, + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| kinesthesia hallucination | The sense of movement of one or more muscles, when no movement is taking place. (05 Mar 2000) |
| kinesthesiometer | An instrument for determining the degree of muscular sensation. Origin: kinesthesia, + G. Metron, measure (05 Mar 2000) |
| kinesthesis | The sense by which muscular motion, weight, position, etc., are perceived. (12 Dec 1998) |
| kinesthetic | Relating to kinesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| kinesthetic aura | An aura consisting of a subjective feeling of movement of a part of the body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| kinesthetic sense | The sensation felt in muscle when it is contracting; awareness of movement or activity in muscles or joints; sense of position or movement mediated in large part by the posterior columns and medial lemniscus. See: bathyesthesia. Synonym: deep sensibility, kinesthetic sense, mesoblastic sensibility, muscular sense, myoesthesis, myoesthesia. Origin: G. Mys, muscle, + aisthesis, sensation (05 Mar 2000) |
| kinetic | Pertaining to or producing motion. <study> Kinetics: The study of reaction rates and the study of the relationship between force and mass. (14 Oct 1997) |