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ataxia
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 of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition. [archaic]
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(Med.) Loss of coordination in the voluntary muscles, especially the limbs; an inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; it results in unsteady movements and a staggering gait. See also locomotor ataxia, an ataxia which occurs when attempting to perform coordinated muscular movements.
Syn: ataxy
Locomotor ataxia. See Locomotor.
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 is attested from 1660s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context pathology English) Lack of coordination while performing voluntary movements, which may appear to be clumsiness, inaccuracy, or instability. 2 (context chemistry English) The condition of a polymer in which the orientation of the subunits is random 3 (context obsolete English) Disorder; irregularity.
WordNet
n. inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait [syn: ataxy, dyssynergia, motor ataxia]
Wikipedia
Ataxia (from Greek α- [a negative prefix] + -τάξις [order] = "lack of order") is a neurological sign consisting of lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movements that includes gait abnormality. Ataxia is a non-specific clinical manifestation implying dysfunction of the parts of the nervous system that coordinate movement, such as the cerebellum. Ataxia can be limited to one side of the body, which is referred to as hemiataxia. Several possible causes exist for these patterns of neurological dysfunction. Dystaxia is a mild degree of ataxia. Friedrich's ataxia has gait abnormality as the most commonly presented symptom.
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 (ex guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers), Joe Lally (of Fugazi), and Josh Klinghoffer (of the Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- Ataxia (album), a 2008 studio album by the alternative rock band Circus Devils
Ataxia was a short-lived American experimental rock band formed in 2004 by guitarist John Frusciante ( Red Hot Chili Peppers), bassist Joe Lally ( Fugazi) and drummer Josh Klinghoffer ( Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dot Hacker, The Bicycle Thief), who later succeeded Frusciante as the lead guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Ataxia wrote and recorded songs for two weeks, and the material was separated into two albums: Automatic Writing (2004) and AW II (2007). The songs all feature a ground-bass line with the guitar overlaying different motifs and long developments. In March 2008, Lally described the band's writing process:
Ataxia performed two shows, both at the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles, on February 2 and February 3, 2004. Following this, the group disbanded. Josh Klinghoffer continued to work with Frusciante on his solo projects, and is the current guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, after Frusciante's departure in 2009.
Ataxia, described by Haldeman in 1847, is an American genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, tribe Pteropliini.
Ataxia is the sixth studio album released by alternative / psychedelic-rock band Circus Devils on October 31, 2008. All songs on Ataxia were written and performed by Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias, and Tim Tobias.
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.