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Definition of Ataxy
1. Noun. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait.
Generic synonyms: Nervous Disorder, Neurological Disease, Neurological Disorder
Specialized synonyms: Friedreich's Ataxia, Herediatry Spinal Ataxia, Hereditary Cerebellar Ataxia
Group relationships: Spinocerebellar Disorder
Derivative terms: Atactic, Ataxic
Definition of Ataxy
1. ataxia [n ATAXIES] - See also: ataxia
Medical Definition of Ataxy
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1. Disorder; irregularity.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ataxy
Literary usage of Ataxy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1866)
"Since then this remedy has been employed in most cases of ataxy, ... I have,
indeed, now a case of ataxy under my care in which the improvement has, ..."
2. The Medical Times and Gazette (1879)
"In the second they were absent altogether eighteen months after the establishment
of the ataxy, unless for the slight confusion of vision described ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1883)
"11) records a case of locomotor ataxy in a man aged thirty-eight, who was getting
on pretty well until he was seen by Charcot, who prescribed ergot in ..."
4. A Manual and atlas of medical ophthalmoscopy by William Richard Gowers (1879)
"POSTERIOR SCLEROSIS : LOCOMOTOR ataxy. Atrophy of the optic nerves is, as is well
known, frequent in locomotor ataxy. In what proportion of the cases it ..."
5. The Diseases of children by James Frederic Goodhart, George Frederic Still (1905)
"Friedreich's Disease, or Hereditary ataxy, is a rare condition, but begins almost
always in early childhood. It is probably not actually congenital, ..."
6. A Practical treatise on nervous exhaustion (neurasthenia) by George Miller Beard (1880)
"Shooting Pains simulating those of ataxy.—If there be any difference between the
familiar shooting, lightning-like pains in the extremities, ..."
7. The Clinical Journal (1895)
"Now, in Friedreich's ataxy there is never optic atrophy. If it is present it is
a very anomalous case, and it is certainly not Friedreich's, but a disease ..."
8. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1878)
"THE HEAD SYMPTOMS IN LOCOMOTOR ataxy.—The following is the analysis of a ...
For many years M. Pierret has studied locomotor ataxy in point of view of ..."
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