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ABASIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does abasia mean?
• ABASIA (noun)
The noun ABASIA has 1 sense:
1. inability to walk
Familiarity information: ABASIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inability to walk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("abasia" is a kind of...):
disability of walking (a disability that interferes with or prevents walking)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abasia"):
abasia trepidans (abasia due to trembling of the legs)
atactic abasia; ataxic abasia (abasia due to ataxia of the legs)
choreic abasia (abasia related to abnormal movements of the legs)
paralytic abasia (abasia related to paralysis of the leg muscles)
paroxysmal trepidant abasia (abasia related to spasticity of the legs)
spastic abasia (abasia due to spastic contractions of the leg muscles)
Derivation:
abasic; abatic (of or relating to abasia (inability to walk))
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