Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Want of order; disturbance.
  • noun In pathology, same as ataxia.

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  • noun medicine ataxia
  • noun obsolete disorder; irregularity

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  • noun inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait

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Examples

  • The explosive rush and momentum of these deafferented extensor reflexes recall the ataxy of tabes.

    Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • Probably it was locomotor ataxy, which is the special scourge of the imaginative man.

    Through the Magic Door Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1907

  • Probably it was locomotor ataxy, which is the special scourge of the imaginative man.

    Through the Magic Door Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • “Ah — how are you?” he asked musically, peering down on the great frame of the miner, ruined by locomotor ataxy.

    The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

  • The total finishing and printing, not only of the body of the discourse, but also the preface, before occasion was given to those thoughts which I now desire to communicate, is the rise of this ataxy.

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • Its onset is an ataxy; and its culmination a paralysis.

    The Unity of Civilization Various

  • Sultan's Prime Minister, and Sultan Tattarassa, of Parágua Island, the latter afflicted with _locomotor ataxy_, came in, saluted us all, and took seats.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • It is closely allied to, if not identical with, locomotor ataxy.

    Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

  • In fact for a lamentably depraved condition of all the bodily health, such as characterises advanced locomotor ataxy, and allied spinal degradations leading to general physical failure.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • But on April 30, 1883, Manet died, exhausted by his work and struggles, of locomotor ataxy, after having vainly undergone the amputation of a foot to avoid gangrene.

    The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Camille Mauclair 1908

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