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Ataxia   /ˈeɪtˈæksiə/   Listen
Ataxia

noun
1.
Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait.  Synonyms: ataxy, dyssynergia, motor ataxia.



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"Ataxia" Quotes from Famous Books



... dietary rules) for over fifty different diseases, including Consumption, Appendicitis, Locomotor Ataxia, Paralysis, Dyspepsia, Pneumonia, Diabetes Mellitus, Uterine troubles, etc. Also all the ...
— The Royal Road to Health • Chas. A. Tyrrell

... ROUGON, alias SACCARD, born in 1840, has a son in 1857 by a servant, Justine Megot, the chlorotic daughter of drunken parents; married in 1863 to Louise de Mareuil, who dies childless the same year; succumbs to ataxia in 1873. A dissemination of characteristics. Moral prepotency of his father, physical likeness to his mother. Idle, inclined ...
— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson

... LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA. Tabes dorsalis. Posterior Spinal Sclerosis).—A hardening (sclerosis) affecting the posterior parts of the spinal cord and characterized by incoordination, which means a condition where a person is unable to produce ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... "an old fellow who used to live out in the country near me. He was not so very old, either, but he looked it. He had to be pushed around in a wheel-chair. People said he had locomotor ataxia, but that really meant syphilis. We boys used to poke all kinds of fun at him because one windy day his hat and his wig were blown off together, and we discovered that he was as bald as an egg. We used to make jokes about his automobile, as we called it. It had a little handle in front, instead ...
— Damaged Goods - A novelization of the play "Les Avaries" • Upton Sinclair



Words linked to "Ataxia" :   atactic, spinocerebellar disorder, nervous disorder, ataxic, neurological disease, neurological disorder



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