. Diseases of the nervous system : for the general practitioner and student. acertain gesture in other parts of the body, such as sudden kick of the foot. 5o8 TIC Gilles de la Tourette describes various tic movements accompanied bycoprolalia, viz. enunciation of profane words. Another characteristicfeature of tic is the possiblitiy with a certain effort of retarding or sup-pressing the muscular contraction. The reason of it lies in the corticalnature of the phenomenon. Tic usually disappears during sleep. Sensations, reflexes, sphincters are intact in tic. The affected muscles may sometimes be
. Diseases of the nervous system : for the general practitioner and student. acertain gesture in other parts of the body, such as sudden kick of the foot. 5o8 TIC Gilles de la Tourette describes various tic movements accompanied bycoprolalia, viz. enunciation of profane words. Another characteristicfeature of tic is the possiblitiy with a certain effort of retarding or sup-pressing the muscular contraction. The reason of it lies in the corticalnature of the phenomenon. Tic usually disappears during sleep. Sensations, reflexes, sphincters are intact in tic. The affected muscles may sometimes become hypertrophied, but thiscondition is only functional in nature. Forms Tic of the Face.—The most frequent tic of all the muscles of the faceis that of the eyelids (palpebral tic). It is usually bilateral. The neigh-boring muscles frequently participate. The eye-globes frequently partici-pate (nystagmoid tic). The latter symptom is not observed in blepharo-spasm. Next to the eyelids the lips are the most frequently are the result of tic of the
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