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Definition of Motor ataxia

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

Medical Definition of Motor ataxia

1. Ataxia developing upon attempting to perform coordinated muscular movements. Synonym: kinetic ataxia. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Motor Ataxia

Literary usage of Motor ataxia

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

1. Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System: Especially in Women by Silas Weir Mitchell (1885)
"HYSTERICAL motor ataxia—HYSTERICAL PARESIS. THE form of disorder to which I shall next direct your attention in connection with hysteria is the motor ataxia ..."

2. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System by William Alexander Hammond (1876)
"The reverse is true of loci- motor ataxia. The history of the case will also ... In the latter or even in the developed stage of k» motor ataxia it would be ..."

3. 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 (1894)
"The autopsy revealed a tubercle of the region of the corpora quadrigemina, mainly on the right side. marked on right side ; cerebellar ataxia, motor ataxia ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1894)
"marked on right side ; cerebellar ataxia, motor ataxia of upper and lower ... For the motor ataxia of the extremities, he holds the lesion of the ..."

5. Clinical Lessons on Nervous Diseases by Silas Weir Mitchell (1897)
"motor ataxia IN A CHILD OF THREE YEARS, WITH RETAINED MUSCLE-REFLEXES; PERNICIOUS ANAEMIA, WITH LOCOmotor ataxia AND HYSTERIA. THIS child, whose parents ..."

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