ATAXY, Ataxia, a want of order or regularity—The term is chiefly used in medicine, where the order of the critical days, or other phenomena of a disease, is inverted. See CRITICAL.
The physicians have frequent recourse to an Ataxy or irregularity of the spirits, when at a loss to account for any disorder in the body. The spirits, Dr. Drake observes, being always at hand, are forced to bear the blame of a thousand things they are innocent of. See SPIRIT.
The word is compounded of the privative α-, and τάξις, order.
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- Written by: Ephraïm Chambers
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