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Lack of coordination, clinically
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ataxia
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Ataxia is a neurological sign consisting of lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movements that includes gait abnormality. Ataxia may also refer to: Ataxia (genus) , a genus of longhorn beetles Ataxia (band) , a supergroup featuring John Frusciante ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also anglicized as ataxy , "irregularity of bodily functions," 1610s, "confusion, disorder," medical Latin, from Greek ataxia , from a- , privative prefix, + taxis "arrangement, order," from stem of tassein "to arrange" (see tactics ). Pathological sense ...
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 ...
Usage examples of ataxia.
Marked dysmetria and ataxia were indicated by the finger-to-nose test.
An old veteran of time travel, the chronoplates did not affect him as profoundly as they did most soldiers, who usually vomited upon arrival and suffered from temporary bouts of vertigo and myoclonus, as well as double vision and ataxia.
Or that Pishposh, the man-eating alligator, is down with locomotor ataxia.
Walker was lecturing on locomotor ataxia to a wardful of youngsters.
Jonas declares he once spoke of locomotor ataxia in hearing and she said she knew too well what that was.
The mark of the devil on a woman's breast is only a mole, the man who came back from the dead and stood at his wife's door dressed in the cerements of the grave was only suffering from locomotor ataxia, the bogeyman who gibbers and capers in the corner of a child's bedroom is only a heap of blankets.
All humans had repeat sequences, the presence of which were associated with various diseases: spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, fragile X mental retardation, myotonic dystrophy, Huntington disease, spinocerebrellar ataxia, dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy, and Machado-Joseph disease.