Jactitation (medicine)

For the legal term, see Jactitation.

In medicine, jactitation (sometimes jactation) is a restless tossing in bed, seen in severe fevers and certain mental disorders;^[1] or more generally a tossing to and fro or jerking and twitching of the body.^[2] It derives ultimately from the Latin jactitare, to toss about.^[1]