Medical Terminology / Unit 12 MedTerm 0767 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-praxia: Purposeful Movement
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The idea
The suffix praxia names the ability to perform purposeful movement.
In practice
Apraxia is the inability to perform purposeful movement.
Where people slip
Praxia concerns planning a movement, where plegia concerns the power to make one.
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