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What (who) is jactation - definition
Jactation
·noun A throwing or tossing of the body; a shaking or agitation.
Jactitation (medicine)
RESTLESS TOSSING IN BED
In medicine, jactitation (sometimes jactation) is a restless tossing in bed, seen in severe fevers and certain mental disorders; or more generally a tossing to and fro or jerking and twitching of the body. It derives ultimately from the Latin jactitare, to toss about.
