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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

At times locomotor ataxia begins with very severe pain seizures, known as crises.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

Another nervous disease, corresponding in some of its features to paresis and indeed sometimes spoken of as a spinal form of paresis, is locomotor ataxia.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

Almost without exception neither of these symptoms or syndromes are at all connected with the locomotor ataxia.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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