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Festinant has the following meanings in the field of medicine:

1. Rapid, accelerating, hastening.

2. Pertaining to a pattern of type of walking (gait) that speeds up involuntarily as a result of damage to the brain and/or spine. The increased rate of walking occurs as the person unconsciously tries to catch up with him/herself, since his/her center of gravity (the part where the entire weight of the body is concentrated) has been altered. See the entry for festinating gait for more information. Festinant comes from the Latin word "festino" meaning "to hasten.”

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