Medical Terminology / Unit 12 MedTerm 0768 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-taxia: Coordination
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The idea
The suffix taxia names muscular coordination.
In practice
Ataxia is a lack of muscular coordination.
Where people slip
Ataxia is disordered coordination, not weakness and not paralysis.
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