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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

amimic en · ADJ

Etymology

From a- + mimic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) unable to express oneself using gestures
    • Parkinsonism, at its severest, presents itself as an akinetic amimia (as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias). 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:

Translations (1)

pt amímico (unable to express oneself using gestures)