locomotor ataxia
Americannoun
noun
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
One thing that constantly happens in the progress of locomotor ataxia is a yielding of joint capsules and attachments so that there is more motion permitted in joints than is possible in the normal individual.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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
The pain of a gastric neurosis may, indeed, so simulate the gastric crises of locomotor ataxia as to make what is only a case of hysteria seem beyond doubt one of locomotor ataxic.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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