echoplasia
English
Noun
echoplasia (uncountable)
- Physically or mentally tracing the contours of objects, usually obsessively.[1][2]
References
- “The pathophysiology of echopraxia/echolalia: relevance to Gilles de la Tourette syndrome”, in Mov. Disord., volume 27, issue 10, September 2012, DOI:, PMID 22807284, pages 1222–9
- “Contour copying or echoplasia – a new echo phenomenon in a person with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome”, in Psychopathology, volume 41, issue 3, 2008, DOI:, PMID 18337631, pages 201–2