APRAXIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inability to make purposeful movements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("apraxia" is a kind of...):

brain disease; brain disorder; encephalopathy (any disorder or disease of the brain)

Derivation:

apractic; apraxic (having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder)

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