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APRAXIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does apraxia mean?
• APRAXIA (noun)
The noun APRAXIA has 1 sense:
1. inability to make purposeful movements
Familiarity information: APRAXIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inability to make purposeful movements
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("apraxia" is a kind of...):
brain disease; brain disorder; encephalopathy (any disorder or disease of the brain)
Derivation:
apractic; apraxic (having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder)
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