Ataxia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Loss of the ability to coordinate muscular movement.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Lack of coordination while performing voluntary movements, which may appear to be clumsiness, inaccuracy, or instability.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Disorder; irregularity.
  • n.
  • n. Irregularity in disease, or in the functions.
  • n. The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In pathology, irregularity in the functions of the body or in the course of a disease; specifically, inability to coördinate voluntary movements. Also ataxy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
  • Equivalent
    ataxy   
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    ataxic   
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    disorder    irregularity    dystaxia    ataxy   
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