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noun

Ataxy, Ataxia n.

Disorder; irregularity. (Obs.)

(Med.)

(a)

Irregularity in disease, or in the functions.

(b)

The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition. (archaic)

(Med.) Loss of coordination in the voluntary muscles, especially the limbs; an inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; it results in unsteady movements and a staggering gait. See also locomotor ataxia, an ataxia which occurs when attempting to perform coordinated muscular movements.

Synonyms: ataxy

Locomotor ataxia. See Locomotor.

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Etymology of 'Ataxy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ataxy" Quotes from Famous Books

... back West and raise hell for a year or so; finally his father will make him go into the paint business. He'll marry and have four sons, all bone heads. He'll always think St. Regis's spoiled him, so he'll send his sons to day school in Portland. He'll die of locomotor ataxia when he's forty-one, and his wife will give a baptizing stand or whatever you call it to the Presbyterian Church, ...

— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... singular coincidence," she continued, "that at the instant that you called I was reading your paper on 'Locomotor Ataxia,' in the Lancet." ...

— Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life • Arthur Conan Doyle