retropulsion
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A tendency to step or walk backwards involuntarily, especially as a symptom of parkinsonism.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Transfer of a disease from an external source to an internal organ.
Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Retropulsion most often occurs when you are trying to reach for something higher than sholder level."
- "For patients prone to retropulsion, wearing shoes with high heels may diminish or prevent the backward stepping."
- "Pretreating rats with α-methyl-ρ-tyrosine (30 mg/kg i.p. at -4 h) to interrupt the synthesis of catecholamines antagonized pivoting and retropulsion induced by levallorphan (50 mg/kg i.p.) (WRAY 1973) but, surprisingly, not lateral head movements and pivoting elicited by cyclazocine (3 mg/kg s.c.) (BUCKETT and SHAW 1975)."
- "Retropulsion of the eye slackens the rectus muscle and, if forced ductions improve with retropulsion, then the restriction is secondary to a tight rectus muscle."
- "Spinal CT or MRI reveals violation of the posterior cortex of the vertebral bodies (burst fracture) with retropulsion of bone into the spinal canal."
- "The goal of retropulsion is to expand the diameter of the urethra with fluid to suspend the obstructing substance in a fluid column that will carry it back into the bladder."