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Definition: Ataxia |
AtaxiaNoun1. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Unsteady or irregular gait resulting from incoordination of the muscles, which can be caused by a variety of lesions throughout the nervous system. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Impairment of the ability to perform smoothly coordinated voluntary movements. This condition may affect the limbs, trunk, eyes, pharnyx, larnyx, and other structures. Ataxia may result from impaired sensory or motor function. Sensory ataxia may result from posterior column injury or peripheral nerve diseases. Motor ataxia may be associated with cerebellar diseases; cerebral cortex diseases; thalamic diseases; basal ganglia diseases; injury to the red nucleus; and other conditions. (references) |
Medicine | An inability to co-ordinate muscular movements. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ataxia may be caused by a congenital disease (Friedreichs ataxia), a viral infection (chicken pox), encephalitis, diseases and lesions of the central nervous system or spinal cord (including abscess, trauma, stroke etc.) or by various toxic substances, including drugs such as alcohol.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ataxia."
Synonyms: AtaxiaSynonyms: ataxy (n), dyssynergia (n), motor ataxia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ataxia |
| English words defined with "ataxia": atactic, atactic abasia, ataxic, ataxic abasia ♦ Preataxic ♦ Railway spine ♦ spinocerebellar disorder ♦ tabes dorsalis, Terebrating. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ataxia": avian encephalomyelitis ♦ Carbohydrate-Deficient Glycoprotein Syndrome, Cerebellar Diseases, congenital cerebellar ataxia, Coxsackieviruses A ♦ epidemic tremor, epidemic tremors ♦ Feline Panleukopenia, Fisher syndrome ♦ Ibotenic Acid, infectious avian encephalomyelitis ♦ Marie disease, Marie's cerebellar ataxia, Marie's disease, Miller-Fisher Syndrome ♦ Nonne-Marie sydrome. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ataxia": Ataxic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ataxia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (ataxia), Portuguese (ataxia, ataxy), Spanish (ataxia, ataxy). |
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Health | The Foundation sponsors support groups and promotes ataxia research. (references) | |
The protein that is altered in Friedreich's ataxia is called frataxin. (references) | ||
In addition, some people develop an abnormal walking rhythm known as ataxia. (references) | ||
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| "Ataxia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Ataxia" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ataxia": Ataxia Telangiectasia ♦ Cerebellar Ataxia ♦ congenital cerebellar ataxia ♦ enzootic ataxia ♦ enzootic ataxia of lambs ♦ familiar ataxia ♦ Friedreich Ataxia ♦ Friedreich's ataxia ♦ Gait Ataxia ♦ herediatry spinal ataxia ♦ hereditary cerebellar ataxia ♦ hereditary spinal ataxia 2.Friedreich's disease ♦ locomotor ataxia ♦ Marie's cerebellar ataxia ♦ motor ataxia. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "ataxia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | атаксия. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不整齐. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ataksi (primary incoordination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ataxie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | perinnöllinen pikkuaivoataksia (Marie ataxia, Marie's ataxia, Marie's cerebellar ataxia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ataxie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ataxie (primary incoordination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αταξία (clutter, confusion, disaray, disarray, disorder, irregularity, mess, mischief, mischievousness, naughtiness, prank, shenanighan, wildness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | atassia (ataxy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 自律神経失調症 (autonomic ataxia), 運動失調症 (motor ataxia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | う"どうしっちょうしょう (motor ataxia), じりつし"けいしっちょうしょう (autonomic ataxia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ataxiaay ataxia (ataxy). (various references) атаксия (ataxy). (various references) ataxia (ataxy). (various references) kasların koordinasyon bozukluğu (ataxy). (various references) атаксія (ataxy). (various references) sự mất điều ho (ataxy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "ataxia": ataxias. (additional references) | |
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"Ataxia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abaxial, Adamiya, adaxial, apaxia, atagia, Ataia, Atalia, ataxi, ataxim, ataxis, atonia, atraxia, Cacaxtia, cachexia, Kaitaia, Lattakia, patagia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ataxia" (pronounced ā'ta"ksēu) |
| 4 | -k s ē u | Alexia, anorexia, dyslexia, hypoxia. |
| 3 | -s ē u | celosia, intelligentsia, Valencia. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-t-x" | |
-2 letters: taxa, taxi. | |
-3 letters: ait, tax. | |
-4 letters: aa, ai, at, ax, it, ta, ti, xi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-t-x" | |
+1 letter: ataxias. | |
+2 letters: ataraxia, ataraxic. | |
+3 letters: ataraxias, ataraxics, ataraxies, parataxis. | |
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