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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

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Two weeks before his arrival a man suffering from locomotor ataxia had been carried in, unable to help himself at all.

From The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women by Flower, Sydney Blanshard

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

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

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 ?Malley, Austin

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