Definition of Ataxy

1. Noun. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait.


Definition of Ataxy

1. ataxia [n ATAXIES] - See also: ataxia

Medical Definition of Ataxy

1. 1. Disorder; irregularity. 2. Irregularity in disease, or in the functions. The state of disorder that characterises nervous fevers and the nervous condition. Locomotor ataxia. See Locomotor. Origin: NL. Ataxia, Gr, fr. Out of order; priv. + ordered, arranged, to put in order: cf. F. Ataxie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ataxy

ataxic aphasia
ataxic breathing
ataxic dysarthria
ataxic gait
ataxic paramyotonia
ataxic paraplegia
ataxic tremor
ataxics
ataxies
ataxin
ataxins
ataxiophemia
ataxiophobia
ataxite
ataxites
ataxy (current term)
atazanavir
atazir
atbash
atcha
atchieve
atchieved
atchievement
atchievements
atchieves
atchieving
atchoo
ate
ate away
ate like a bird

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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