locomotor ataxia

noun

Pathology.

1. tabes dorsalis.

locomotor ataxia

noun

1. pathol another name for tabes dorsalis

Word History and Origins

Origin of locomotor ataxia¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Practically all patients with locomotor ataxia owe their condition to an antecedent syphilis.

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Anaesthesia, amaurosis, deafness have been observed; a number of cases of locomotor ataxia are on record, and but lately Hadthagen12 publishes a case which he claims as disseminated sclerosis.

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He suffers from aphasia, and locomotor ataxia has begun to manifest itself.

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Tabes dorsalis, or locomotor ataxia, is caused in about 93 per centum of cases of this disease by syphilis, and it is an incurable and dreadful malady.

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This with the exaggerated reflexes would exclude its use in locomotor ataxia.

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