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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. F.

ataxique

. See

(Med.)

Characterized by ataxy, that is,

(a)

by great irregularity of functions or symptoms, or

(b)

by a lack of coordinating power in movements.

Ataxic fever

malignant typhus fever.

Pinel.

ataxic

Pertaining to ataxia.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 15,
  Mr Lackersteen tottered after her, with a strange ataxic step caused partly by earth-tremors and partly by gin.