Locomotor ataxia is the inability to precisely control one's own bodily movements. Persons afflicted with this disease may walk in a jerky, non-fluid manner.
LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA (J.H. Kellogg, M.D., Formulas)
IMPROVE GENERAL NUTRITION"Careful Cold Mitten Friction or Cold Towel Rub; Very carefully Graduated Cold Baths; Wet Sheet Pack, protecting the spine by a dry towel, ...
Locomotor Ataxia. [American Illustrated Medical Dictionary 1914].
Example from an 1897 Death Record from Michigan:
Erb's Paralysis ...
Progressive Locomotor Ataxia
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
Progressive Sclerosing Poliodystrophy
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Prosopagnosia ...
Locomotor ataxia involves a lack of balance, or equilibrium. Patients must stand on a broad base, eyes open, or they will sway or even fall. The swaying increases if they shut their eyes.
Neurosyphilis, Tabes Dorsalis; Locomotor Ataxia, Progressive; Syphilitic Posterior Spinal Sclerosis
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Neurosyphilis; General Paresis; Paretic Neurosyphilis, Dementia Paralytica, General Paralysis (of the Insane) (Progressive), Taboparesis ...
tebp riss noun the final stage of syphilis in which the person has locomotor ataxia general paralysis ...
tachyarrhythmia
tki rmi noun a fast irregular heartbeat ...
The result may be either retention or incontinence of urine; sometimes there is at first retention, which later is followed by incontinence. Paralysis is also met with in certain nervous diseases, as in locomotor ataxia, ...
Tabes dorsalis is sometimes called locomotor ataxia.
General paresis. General paresis refers to the effects of neurosyphilis on the cortex of the brain.
 See also: Ataxia, Paralysis, Symptom, Syphilis, Fever
  
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