cerea flexibilitas /ce·rea flex·i·bil·i·tas/ (sēr´e-ah flek″sĭ-bil´ĭ-tas) [L.] a rigidity of the body in which the patient maintains whatever position he is placed in, the limbs having a heavy waxy malleability.
cerea flexibilitas
ce·re·a flex·i·bil·i·tas (sîr  - fl k s-b l-ts)n. The capacity to maintain the limbs or other bodily parts in the position they are placed, as in catalepsy. |
cerea flexibilitas
[sirē′ə flek′sibil′itas]
Etymology: L, waxlike flexibility
a cataleptic state, frequently observed in catatonic schizophrenia, in which the limbs maintain the positions in which they are placed for an indefinite period. Also called flexibilitas cerea, waxy flexibility. See also catalepsy.
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