tardive dyskinesia

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   involuntary rolling of the tongue and twitching of the face or trunk or limbs; often occurs in patients with Parkinsonism who are treated with phenothiazine

   Broaderdyskinesia

Questions about tardive dyskinesia

What does tardive dyskinesia mean?

tardive dyskinesia means "involuntary rolling of the tongue and twitching of the face or trunk or limbs; often occurs in patients with Parkinsonism who are treated with phenothiazine".

Is tardive dyskinesia a common word?

tardive dyskinesia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.