jitters

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jitters

1 irregularities in ultrasound echo locations caused by mechanical or electronic disturbances.

2 a very uneasy, nervous feeling.

An episode of performance anxiety preceding a public event, which may affect speakers, stage actors—hence the alternate, term ‘stage fright’—and soloist musicians; it may respond to anxiolytics

jitters

'Butterflies' Psychology An episode of nervousness or anxiety that often precedes a public event; jitters is a type of performance anxiety which may affect actors in a stage production–stage fright or soloist musicians; it may respond to anxiolytics

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Concentric needle jitter in stimulated frontalis in 20 healthy subjects.

Reference jitter values for concentric needle electrodes in voluntary activated extensor digitorum communis and orbicularis oculi muscles.

Kouyoumdjian JA, Stalberg EV Concentric needle single fiber electromyography: normative jitter values on voluntary activated Extensor Digitorum Communis.

Reference voluntary jitter values using disposable monopolar needle electrodes in the extensor digitorum communis muscle.

Using 37-mm concentric needle electrode jitter values in voluntary periocular muscles MCD per Individual 18th MCD MIPI study pairs value n 134 2680 134 134 Jitter ([micro]s) 22.

Jitter values on voluntary active periocular muscles of healthy subjects with conventional (37 mm) concentric needle electrode

Jitter recordings with concentric needle electrodes.

Reference jitter values for concentric needle electrodes in voluntarily activated extensor digitorum communis and orbicularis oculi muscles.

Concentric needle single fiber electromyography: Comparative jitter on voluntary-activated and stimulated extensor digitorum communis.

Concentric needle jitter on stimulated orbicularis oculi in 50 healthy subjects.

Jitter analysis with concentric needle electrode in the masseter muscle for the diagnosis of generalised myasthenia gravis.

Concentric and single fiber needle electrodes yield comparable jitter results in myasthenia gravis.

Concentric needle electrode for neuromuscular jitter analysis.

Quantitating Changes in Jitter and Spike Number Using Concentric Needle Electrodes in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients

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