biballism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Ballism is a dramatic proximal ballistic flinging movement (see Chapter 21) that most commonly affects the limbs on one side of the body (hemiballism), but involvement in both legs (paraballism) or both sides of the body (biballism) has been reported."
- "Rarely, it can occur bilaterally (biballism) or affect both legs (paraballism)."
Etymology
From bi- + ballism.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: bi