attitude

(at’e-tid) [L. attitu’do posture]. A posture or position of the body. cruc n @., rigidity of the body, with the arms extended at right angles: seen in hystero-epilepsy. frozen @., a peculiar stiffne of the gait, especially seen in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. illogi a's, the strange and grotesque attitudes a umed by those suffering from hystero-epilepsy. pa ionate a., the dramatic or theatric expre ion or gesture often a umed by hysteric patients.