apraxicadj.n.
/eɪˈpraksɪk/, /əˈpraksɪk/, U.S. /eɪˈpræksɪk/ Medicine.
A. adj.
Suffering from or affected with apraxia; characteristic of or relating to apraxia.
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paraplectic1661
hemiplegiac1802
hemiplegic1822
paraplegic1822
hemiplegian1842
athetoid1875
apraxic1892
monoplegic1896
quadriplegic1897
athetotic1898
spastic1903
tetraplegic1911
quadriparetic1956
cerebral-palsied1961
Tasered1976
1892 W. Osler Princ. & Pract. Med. viii. iii. 900 There are instances on record of apraxic patients unable to read by sight, who could on tracing the letters by touch name them correctly.
1913 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 40 150 To present a somewhat different side to the classification of apraxic disturbances, a correlation according to muscle groups is of importance.
1945 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 Mar. 453/1 The apraxic awkwardness observed in bromide cases.
1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) II. xxi. 39/2 Many apraxic patients are also aphasic.
2011 West Australian (Perth) (Nexis) 7 Sept. 8 Speech therapists needed to hear if her daughter had elements of apraxic speech.
B. n.
A person affected with apraxia.
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1908 Brain 31 196 Some of the amorphous movements of apraxics are less easy to distinguish.
1975 Arch. Physical Med. & Rehabilit. 56 156/1 The project included total glossectomees, laryngectomees, dysphonics, dysarthrics and apraxics.
2012 M. A. Arbib How Brain got Lang. vii. 202 Some apraxics exhibit a semantic deficit—having difficulty both in classifying gestures and in performing familiar gestures on command.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.n.1892