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Word of the Day: Dyskinesia

Today's word is one of the symptoms of Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's.

dyskinesia(dis-ki-NEE-zhuh, -zhee-uh, -zee-uh, -kahy-)noun. Pathology difficulty or abnormality in performing voluntary muscular movements.
Origin: 1700–10; from the Greek, dyskīnēsía.
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