ataxia
pronunciation
How to pronounce ataxia in British English:
UK [əˈtæksiə]
How to pronounce ataxia in American English:
US [əˈtæksiə]
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- Noun:
- inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
Word Origin
- ataxia (n.)
- also anglicized as ataxy, "irregularity of bodily functions," 1610s, "confusion, disorder," medical Latin, from Greek ataxia, from a-, privative prefix, + taxis "arrangement, order," from stem of tassein "to arrange" (see tactics). Pathological sense is attested from 1660s.
Example
- 1. Human ataxia telangiectasia mutated , atm elisa kit 96t48t .
- 2. Human lymphoblastoid , ataxia telangiectasia variant , ebv-transformed .
- 3. Sick cats ataxia , convulsions , paralysis , and even jumped into the sea dead , known as " suicide cat . "
- 4. Myoclonus , ataxia and hearing loss .
- 5. We describe a family with four members through three generations with autosomal dominant ataxia in combination with miosis and hyperreflexia .