A-tăx'i-ȧ or Ăt'ax-y

A-tăx'i-ȧ, Ăt'ax-y, n. [Fr. ataxie, Gr. ἀταξία, from ἄτακτος, out of order, from ἀ priv. and τακτός, ordered, arranged, from τάσσειν, to put in order.]

1Sense 1. Want of order; disturbance; irregularity.

Neither is there any ataxy to be feared in bringing in this distinction. Bp. Hall.

2Sense 2. (Med.) (a.) Irregularity in disease, or in the functions. (b.) The state of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous system.

☞ Ataxia is more generally used by medical writers than ataxy.