ataxia
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀταξία (ataxía, “disorder”), derived from ἄτακτος (átaktos, “disorderly”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ataxia (countable and uncountable, plural ataxias)
- (pathology) Lack of coordination while performing voluntary movements, which may appear to be clumsiness, inaccuracy, or instability.
- (physical chemistry, organic chemistry) The condition of a polymer in which the orientation of the subunits is random
- (obsolete) Disorder; irregularity.
- Synonym: (obsolete) dystaxia
- 1569, John Leslie, A Defence of the Honour of the Right Highe, Mightye and Noble Princesse Marie Quene of Scotlande, Rheims, Book 3,[1]
- Ye frame an other argumente of inconueniences, as thowghe vnder the womans regimente, Ataxia, that ys to saye disorder moste commonlye creapethe in.
- 1614, Thomas Adams, The Devills Banket, London: Ralph Mab, The Second Service, Sermon 2, p. 51,[2]
- Let not Gods eutaxie, Order, by our friuolous scruples be brought to ataxie, Confusion.
- 1640, Joseph Hall, Episcopacie by Divine Right[3], London: Nathanael Butter, Part 3, § 1, p. 212:
- Neither is there any Ataxie to bee feared in bringing in this distinction, betwixt Pastors and flock; It is an Eutaxie rather:
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[edit]Translations
[edit]lack of coordination
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Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: a‧ta‧xi‧a
Noun
[edit]ataxia f (plural ataxias)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ataxia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀταξία (ataxía, “disorder”), derived from ἄτακτος (átaktos, “disorderly”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ataxia f (countable and uncountable, plural ataxias)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ataxia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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