astasia

American  

[uh-stey-zhuh, -zhee-uh, -zee-uh] / əˈsteɪ ʒə, -ʒi ə, -zi ə /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. inability to stand due to a limitation or absence of muscular coordination.

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Etymology

Origin of astasia

1885–90; < Greek astasía instability, equivalent to ástat ( os ) ( astatic ) + -ia -ia

Example Sentences

My daddy was Michael and mama was Lucy and dey a whole passel chillen, Frances, Mary, Clotilde, Astasia and Tom, Samuel, Gilbert and Edward.

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Oc´ypus, son of Podalirius and Astasia, noted for his strength, agility and beauty.

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The form is usually constant, but in some cases may be plastic like Astasia; it is usually globular or conical, the posterior end being more or less pointed, the anterior end broadest.

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With deeply-insunk pharynx; no mouth 2   With pharynx and distinct mouth Family Peranemidæ 2 Body plastic; usually with chromatophores and eye-spot Family Euglenidæ   Body plastic; no chromatophores; no eye-spot Family Astastidæ Family Euglenidæ:     Body Euglena-like, inclosed in shell with round opening for exit of flagellum Genus Trachelomonas Family Astastidæ:     Body with one flagellum Genus *Astasia Family Peranemidæ:   1.

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