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locomotor ataxia

American  

noun

Pathology.
  1. tabes dorsalis.


locomotor ataxia British  

noun

  1. pathol another name for tabes dorsalis

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of locomotor ataxia

First recorded in 1875–80

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He differentiated the manifestations of locomotor ataxia, published researches on many another malady from gout to chronic pneumonia, some of which bear his name.

From Time Magazine Archive

The germs attack the brain, causing paresis, and the spinal cord, causing locomotor ataxia.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer

The great danger of the cerebro-spinal type is that it will result in paresis or locomotor ataxia.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer

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.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

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