Apraxia

Definition: Apraxia

Apraxia

Noun

1. Inability to make purposeful movements.

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	Loss of ability to perform purposeful movements, in the absence of paralysis or sensory disturbance, caused by lesions in the cortex. Source: European Union. (references)
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Apraxia is a neurological disorder characterized by loss of the ability to execute or carry out learned (familiar) movements, despite having the desire and the physical ability to perform the movements. There are several types of apraxia including limb-kinetic (inability to make fine, precise movements with a limb), ideomotor (inability to carry out a motor command), ideational (inability to create a plan for or idea of a specific movement), buccofacial or facial-oral (inability to carry out facial movements on command, i.e., lick lips, whistle, cough, or wink) - which is perhaps the most common form, verbal (difficulty coordinating mouth and speech movements), constructional (inability to draw or construct simple configurations), and oculomotor (difficulty moving the eyes). Apraxia may be accompanied by a language disorder called aphasia.

Generally, treatment for individuals with apraxia includes physical and or occupational therapy. If apraxia is a symptom of another disorder, the underlying disorder should be treated. The prognosis for individuals with apraxia varies, With therapy, some patients improve significantly, while others may show very little improvement.

(Based on http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/disorders/apraxia.htm)

Crosswords: Apraxia

Specialty definitions using "apraxia": dressing apraxia. (references)

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Apraxia (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Apraxia of Speech in Adults: The Disorder and Its Management (reference) Childhood Apraxia of Speech Resource Guide (reference) Dysarthria and Apraxia (reference) Speech Practice Manual for Dysarthria Apraxia and Other Disorders of Articulation: Compare and Contrast (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Apraxia may be accompanied by a language disorder called aphasia. (references)
		The NINDS supports research on movement disorders such as apraxia. (references)
		Apraxia, motor problems, and seizures are prominent during this stage. (references)
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"Apraxia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Apraxia" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	16	87,710

Expressions using "apraxia": dressing apraxia ♦ Gait Apraxia. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "apraxia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		apraksi. (various references)

Dutch		apraxie. (various references)

French		apraxie. (various references)

German		Apraxie, Apraxia. (various references)

Greek		συμπαθητική απραξία (sympathetical apraxia), ατονία ουροδόχου κύστης (apraxia of urinary bladder, atonic bladder, atony of urinary bladder, flaccid bladder). (various references)

Italian		aprassia. (various references)

Pig Latin		apraxiaay

Portuguese		apraxia vesical (apraxia of urinary bladder), apraxia simpática (sympathetical apraxia), apraxia da marcha (gait apraxia), jargonopraxia (jargon apraxia). (various references)

Spanish		apraxia. (various references)

Turkish		apraksi, işlev yitimi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "apraxia": apraxias. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-p-r-x"
	-3 letters: aria, pair, para, raia.
	-4 letters: air, par, pax, pia, pix, rap, rax, ria, rip.
	-5 letters: aa, ai, ar, ax, pa, pi, xi.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-p-r-x"
	+1 letter: apraxias.
	+2 letters: parataxis.
	+4 letters: paradoxical.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0070 0072 0061 0078 0069 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Apraxia"

Language	Coverage	Language Translations
Danish	ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse	danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés, danimarkalı, danimarka dili
Dutch	woordenboek, definitie, translatie	hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holandés, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait
French	dictionnaire, définition, traduction	français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili
German	Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition	tysker, Duitse, allemand, �"ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán, alman
Greek	λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση	græker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum
Italian	dizionario, definizione, traduzione	italiener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italyanca, italyan
Portuguese	dicionário, definição, tradução	portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, � ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli
Spanish	diccionario, definición, traducción	Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca
Turkish	sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme	turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, turco, türkçe, türk
English	Dictionary, Definition, Translation	anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
apraxia	341	adult apraxia onset	5
apraxia of speech	34	apraxia treatment	4
verbal apraxia	29	apraxia child	3
apraxia kid	17	apraxia motor	3
developmental apraxia	17	agnosia apraxia	3
apraxia childhood	8	apraxia oculomotor	3
apraxia kids.org	8	apraxia definition	3
apraxia oral	8	apraxia developmental verbal	3
adult apraxia	8	apraxia childhood speech	2
developmental apraxia of speech	6	apraxia autism	2
apraxia therapy	6	apraxia kids.com	2
apraxia motor ocular	5	gait apraxia	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Apraxia

Definition: Apraxia

Apraxia

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Alternative Orthography: Apraxia

41 70 72 61 78 69 61

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Apraxia"

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