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Definition of Hereditary cerebellar ataxia
1. Noun. Nervous disorder of late childhood and early adulthood; characterized by ataxic gait and hesitating or explosive speech and nystagmus.
Medical Definition of Hereditary cerebellar ataxia
1. A disease of later childhood and early adult life, marked by ataxic gait, hesitating and explosive speech, nystagmus, and sometimes optic neuritis. It probably comprises several distinct conditions with diverse patterns of inheritance. Collective term for a number of hereditary disorders in which cerebellar signs are the most prominent finding. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hereditary Cerebellar Ataxia
Literary usage of Hereditary cerebellar ataxia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(b) hereditary cerebellar ataxia (Marie; Sanger Brown) This disease is closely
related to the preceding one, but deserves a separate nosological position. ..."
2. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1901)
"The condition of the patellar reflex also distinguishes Friedreich's disease from
hereditary cerebellar ataxia, soon to be described ..."
3. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1895)
"None of these contributions are of greater interest than those which have been
grouped under the caption of hereditary cerebellar ataxia. ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1902)
"If by hereditary cerebellar ataxia we may understand an hereditary, or at least
a family, disease of those systems of neurones, afferent and efferent, ..."
5. 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 (1902)
"If by hereditary cerebellar ataxia we may understand an hereditary, or at least
a family, disease of those systems of neurones, afferent and efferent, ..."
6. The Treatment of Diseases of the Nervous System: A Manual for Practitioners by Joseph Collins (1900)
"hereditary cerebellar ataxia. The name hereditary cerebellar ataxia is given to a
... The distinguishing features of hereditary cerebellar ataxia are: (1) ..."
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