motor ataxia meaning

• Noun: motor ataxia
  1. Inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
     - ataxia, ataxy, dyssynergia

  Derived forms: motor ataxias

  Type of: nervous disorder, neurological disease, neurological disorder

  Part of: spinocerebellar disorder

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  [Medicine]
  Impairment of the ability to perform smoothly coordinated voluntary movements. This condition may affect the limbs,trunk,eyes,pharynx,larynx,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.

• Test subjects suffered motor ataxia, nausea, visual disturbance, degraded task performance and difficulties in communication.

• "motor ataxia" meaning in Chinese: 运动性共济失调
• "motor ataxia" meaning in Japanese: motor ataxia運動失調症うんどうしっちょうしょう