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noun

Ataxy, Ataxia n.

Disorder; irregularity. (Obs.)

(Med.)

(a)

Irregularity in disease, or in the functions.

(b)

The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition. (archaic)

(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.

Synonyms: ataxy

Locomotor ataxia. See Locomotor.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ataxy" Quotes from Famous Books

... understand. But somehow Great-grandfather's brain, on the other side, seemed to have got badly damaged. My own theory is that, living always in the bright sunshine, he had got sunstroke. But I may wrong him. Perhaps it was locomotor ataxy that he had. That he was very, very happy where he was is beyond all doubt. He said so at every conversation. But I have noticed that feeble-minded people are often happy. He said, too, that he was glad to be where he was; and on ...

— Frenzied Fiction • Stephen Leacock

... and all other alteratives, by suppression of external elimination, create internal chronic diseases of the most dreadful types, such as locomotor ataxy, paresis, etc. ...

— Nature Cure • Henry Lindlahr

... in comparison to the stuff the rich beef packers furnished to those young noblemen with the kyack uniforms on. To make a little more money, men who have millions of dollars to burn, bilked a weak and overworked set of officials with incipient paresis and locomotor ataxia in their walk and conversation, and sawed on to them stuff that self-respecting pigs could not have digested without taking pepsin tablets; and with that embalmed and canned outrage on humanity in their stomachs those brave men charged in the face of an enemy, and were hungry heroes, loaded ...

— Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy - 1899 • George W. Peck

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