Ataxia Definition

ə-tăksē-ə
noun
Total or partial inability to coordinate voluntary bodily movements, as in walking.
Webster's New World
Loss of the ability to coordinate muscular movement.
American Heritage Medicine
Any of various degenerative, often hereditary, disorders that are characterized by ataxia and are frequently associated with cerebellar atrophy.
American Heritage Medicine

(pathology) Lack of coordination while performing voluntary movements, which may appear to be clumsiness, inaccuracy, or instability.

Wiktionary

(chemistry) The condition of a polymer in which the orientation of the subunits is random.

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Origin of Ataxia

  • Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀταξία (ataksia, “disorder”), derived from ἄτακτος (átaktos, “disorderly”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek ataxiā disorder a- not a–1 taxis order

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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