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Movement: Muscle Coordination Loss (Ataxia)
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Movement: Muscle Coordination Loss (Ataxia)
The word ataxia means without coordination, or the lack of voluntary coodination of muscle movements.
Symptom classification
Body areaEntire Body
Body areaMuscle
Conditions linked to this sign/symptom
63- Abetalipoproteinemia
- Acoustic Neuroma
- Acquired Copper Deficiency
- Acute Liver Failure
- African Trypanosomiasis
- Alcohol Intoxication
- Apraxia
- Astrocytoma
- Ataxia Telangiectasia
- Autoimmune Metaplastic Atrophic Gastritis
- Brain Abscess
- Cannabis Intoxication
- Cerebral Palsy Syndromes
- Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis
- Cerebrovascular Disease (stroke)
- Cervical Spondylosis
- Chediak Higashi Syndrome
- Chromium Deficiency
- Cnidaria
- Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection
- Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease
- Diphyllobothriasis
- Ethylene Glycol Poisoning
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Fragile X Associated Tremor Ataxia Syndrome
- Friedreichs Ataxia
- Galactosemia
- Gerstmann Straussler Scheinker Disease
- Granulomatous Amebic Encephalitis
- Guillain Barre Syndrome
- Hartnup Disease
- Hepatic Encephalopathy
- Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis
- Heroin Intoxication
- HIV Associated Dementia
- Intracerebral Hemorrhage
- Intracranial Hemorrhage
- Ischemic Stroke
- Japanese Encephalitis
- Korsakoffs Psychosis
- Lyme Disease
- Manganese Deficiency
- Marchiafava Bignami Disease
- Motor Neuron Disorders
- Multiple System Atrophy
- Neurologic Paraneoplastic Syndromes
- Nonketotic Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Coma
- Opioid Abuse
- Parkinson Disease
- Portal Systemic Encephalopathy
- Progressive Rubella Panencephalitis
- Rabies
- Scorpion Stings
- Spondylotic Cervical Myelopathy
- Stroke
- Tardive Dyskinesia
- Tertiary Syphilis
- Thallium Poisoning
- Tick Paralysis
- Transient Ischemic Attack
- Vitamin B12 Deficiency
- Vitamin E Deficiency
- Wernickes Encephalopathy
Drugs where this is listed as a side effect
34- Aciclovir
- Alprazolam
- Amantadine
- Amiodarone
- Bevacizumab
- Capecitabine
- Carbamazepine
- Clobazam
- Clonazepam
- Cotrimoxazole
- Cyproheptadine
- Diazepam
- Ethosuximide
- Flecainide
- Flunitrazepam
- fluorouracil
- Gabapentin
- Lamotrigine
- Lorazepam
- Minocycline
- Nitrazepam
- Oxazepam
- Oxcarbazepine
- Phenobarbitone
- Phenytoin
- Primidone
- Rifampicin
- Sodium Valproate
- Spironolactone
- Temazepam
- Topiramate
- Tramadol
- Trimipramine
- Valaciclovir