Definition of Incoordination

1. Noun. A lack of coordination of movements.

Generic synonyms: Unskillfulness
Antonyms: Coordination

Definition of Incoordination

1. Noun. Want of coordination; lack of harmonious adjustment or action. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Incoordination

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Incoordination

1. Want of coordination; lack of harmonious adjustment or action. Incoordination of muscular movement, irregularity in movements resulting from inharmonious action of the muscles in consequence of loss of voluntary control over them. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incoordination

inconveniency
inconvenient
inconveniently
inconversable
inconversant
inconverted
inconvertibility
inconvertible
inconvertibleness
inconvertibly
inconvincible
inconvincibly
incony
incoop
incoordinate
incoordination (current term)
incoordinations
incoronate
incorporable
incorporal
incorporality
incorporally
incorporate
incorporated
incorporated company
incorporates
incorporating
incorporation
incorporations
incorporative

Literary usage of Incoordination

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Treatise on Ophthalmology by Lawrance Webster Fox (1920)
"... or Manifold Squint—A condition of incoordination of the ocular muscles in which the degree of insufficiency is too great to be overcome by increased ..."

2. Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System: Delivered at La Salpêtrière by Jean Martin Charcot (1879)
"... characters which distinguish it from the tremor of paralysis agitans, chorea, general paralysis, and the motor incoordination of ataxia. ..."

3. A Manual of Physical Diagnosis by Brefney Rolph O'Reilly (1911)
"(2) incoordination (ataxy or ataxia) refers to the defective cooperation or inharmonious action of groups of muscles. Since defective sight and ..."

4. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by James Meschter Anders (1903)
"The second or ataxic stage—that of incoordination—is general!v slowly progressive, finally reaching a point at which it remains ; rarely, ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"In disease of one lateral lobe the incoordination is typically present only in the homolateral limbs, but not infrequently there is in addition some degree ..."

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