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Ataxia vs Dyspraxia - What's the difference?

ataxia | dyspraxia |

As nouns the difference between ataxia and dyspraxia

is that ataxia is lack of coordination while performing voluntary movements, which may appear to be clumsiness, inaccuracy, or instability while dyspraxia is a disorder in which motor difficulties are caused by perceptual problems.

ataxia

English

Noun

(wikipedia ataxia)
  • (pathology) Lack of coordination while performing voluntary movements, which may appear to be clumsiness, inaccuracy, or instability.
  • (chemistry) The condition of a polymer in which the orientation of the subunits is random
  • (obsolete) Disorder; irregularity.
  • (Bishop Hall)

    Synonyms

    * ataxy * dystaxia

    Derived terms

    * ataxic

    dyspraxia

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia dyspraxia)
  • (medicine) a disorder in which motor difficulties are caused by perceptual problems
  • Derived terms

    * dyspraxic