ataxo-, ataxia- +

Ataxia affecting the distal portion of the extremities; such as, hands and fingers, feet, and toes.

Ataxia is the inability to coordinate muscle activity during voluntary movement, so that smooth movements occur.

An irregular tension of the blood vessels.

An inability to form phrases and sentences despite the ability to enunciate individual words.

1. Absence or lack of order; lack of coordination.
2. The inability of someone to coordinate muscle activity during a voluntary movement; irregularity of muscular action.
3. Unsteadiness, incoordination or disorganization of movements in the absence of paralysis.

In sensor ataxia, the disorder is secondary to impairment of any position and joint sense in the affected part.

1. Muscular weakness combined with incoordination.
2. Ataxia and muscular weakness combined.

A record obtained with an ataxiameter, an instrument for measuring the degree and direction of the swaying of the body and head in static ataxia (inability to keep one's equilibrium), with the individual's eyes closed.

An instrument for measuring the degree and direction of the swaying of the body and head in static ataxia, with the individual's eyes closed. Also: ataxiameter.

An instrument for measuring involuntary tremor and unsteadiness (as the swaying of the whole body in the erect posture).

Amnesia and ataxia in the same individual.

Ataxia refers to unsteadiness, incoordination, or disorganization of movements in the absence of paralysis.

1. The inability to arrange words or to form connected sentences.
2. The inability to construct phrases, while retaining the ability to say isolated words.

Incoordination of the speech muscles.

1. An excessive fear of disorder, disarray, disarrangement, or being in an untidy situation.

Some ataxiophobiacs have obsessive-compulsive disorders that are persistent, intense, senseless, and worrisome. They tend to be so excessive at keeping things in order that they make it nearly impossible to exist with others who are of a less-than-orderly nature.

2. An abnormal fear of falling or tripping.

Loss of muscle coordination; especially, of the extremities; ataxy.

A description of a situation in which the patient displays alternating phases of paralysis and of ataxia, as seen in patients with severe infections; such as, typhoid fever.

A mental dread of disorder or untididness.