ataxia

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Friedreich's ataxia is the most common inherited ataxia, affecting about 1 in 50,000 people in the United States.

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  1. noun Loss of the ability to coordinate muscular movement.

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  • Friedreich's ataxia is the most common inherited ataxia, affecting about 1 in 50,000 people in the United States. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Infantile-onset spinocerebellar ataxia (IOSCA) is a severe neurodegenerative disorder caused by the recessive mutation in PEO1, leading to a Y508C change in the mitochondrial helicase Twinkle, in its helicase domain. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Captain Fred Walters was prescribed silver as a remedy for locomotor ataxia, a degenerative neural disease. —  mental_floss Blog
  • Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have teased apart the biological details distinguishing two related neurological diseases-ataxia telangiectasia-like disease
  • Dr. Yossi Shiloh of Tel Aviv University has dedicated his academic career to investigating a rare neurodegenerative disease - ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) - and his insights are shedding light on a host of other brain disorders, the immune system, DNA damage response and genetic predisposition to cancer and aging. —  Feed of Eventbrite Events
 

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  1. Greek ataxiā, disorder : a-, not; see a-1 + taxis, order.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀταξία, disorder, from ἄτακτος, disorderly, from - privative + τακτός, verbal adjective of τάσσ, σ1ειν, order, arrange: see tactic.
 

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