Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Impaired muscular coordination in walking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, inability to walk, through defect of muscular action, not necessarily paralysis or incoördination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Inability to coördinate muscular actions properly in walking.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun inability to walk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[a– + Greek basis, step; see gwā- in Indo-European roots + –ia.]
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Examples
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From this same standpoint I have studied another case, a married woman of twenty-nine, with marked neurasthenic and hysterical symptoms (including astasia-abasia, anesthesias, palpitation of the heart, throbbing sensations in the stomach and a great many other symptoms).
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Astasia-abasia was named by Blocq, who collected 11 cases.
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Astasia-abasia was named by Blocq, who collected 11 cases.
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