資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Locomotor \Lo`co*mo"tor\, a. [See {Locomotion}.]
Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.
{Locomotor ataxia}, or {Progressive locomotor ataxy} (Med.),
a disease of the spinal cord characterized by peculiar
disturbances of gait, and difficulty in co["o]rdinating
voluntary movements.
Ataxia \A*tax"i*a\, Ataxy \At"ax*y\, n. [NL. ataxia, Gr. ?, fr.
? out of order; 'a priv. + ? ordered, arranged, ? to put in
order: cf. F. ataxie.]
1. Disorder; irregularity. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
2. (Med.)
(a) Irregularity in disease, or in the functions.
(b) The state of disorder that characterizes nervous
fevers and the nervous condition.
{Locomotor ataxia}. See {Locomotor}.
資料來源 : WordNet®
locomotor ataxia
n : syphilis of the spinal cord characterized by degeneration of
sensory neurons and stabbing pains in the trunk and legs
and unsteady gait and incontinence and impotence [syn: {tabes
dorsalis}]