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Unsteady movements and staggering gait
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ataxy
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Word definitions for ataxy in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ataxia \A*tax"i*a\, Ataxy \At"ax*y\, n. [NL. ataxia, Gr. ?, fr. ? out of order; 'a priv. + ? ordered, arranged, ? to put in order: cf. F. ataxie.] Disorder; irregularity. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall. (Med.) Irregularity in disease, or in the functions. The state ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait [syn: ataxia , dyssynergia , motor ataxia ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) ataxia 2 (context obsolete English) disorder; irregularity
Usage examples of ataxy.
In the mean time he asked me all sorts of questions about myself and all my relatives, whether we had been subject to this and that malady, until I felt as if we must some of us have had more or less of them, and could not feel quite sure whether Elephantiasis and Beriberi and Progressive Locomotor Ataxy did not run in the family.