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单词 apraxia
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Definition of apraxia in English:

apraxia

noun əˈpraksɪəāˈpraksēə
mass nounMedicine
  • Inability to perform particular purposive actions, as a result of brain damage.

    with modifier dressing apraxia
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Dementia is chronic and progressive, and it is characterized by the gradual onset of impaired memory and deficits in two or more areas of cognition, such as anomia, agnosia or apraxia.
    • Motor dysfunction of the hands often manifests itself as ‘clumsiness’ that mimics cerebral apraxia, rather than as objective weakness.
    • An example of a test for apraxia is to ask the patient to pantomime the use of a common object such as a hammer or a toothbrush.
    • Inability to execute an intended action is known as apraxia, slowness and difficulty in doing it is dyspraxia.
    • Yes, it's about dreams (both nightly kind and aspirations - Hollywood) but also about mental incoherence, brain damage, aphasia, apraxia, agnosia.

Derivatives

  • apraxic

  • adjective
    Medicine
    • Most apraxic children will be in therapy at least 4 years and sometimes significantly longer.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • However, all but the most severe apraxic children, if given the appropriate therapy, will eventually be competent oral communicators.
      • It is horrible that apraxic children are sometimes misdiagnosed as autistic, or even mentally retarded.
      • It is important to note that in severe cases apraxic patients may have difficulty even with pointing.
      • Both apraxic speakers had suffered left cerebrovascular accidents, which resulted in apraxia of speech as the primary communication deficit.

Origin

Late 19th century: from German Apraxie, from Greek apraxia 'inaction'.

Rhymes

dyspraxia
 
 

Definition of apraxia in US English:

apraxia

nounāˈpraksēə
Medicine
  • Inability to perform particular purposive actions, as a result of brain damage.

    with modifier dressing apraxia
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Dementia is chronic and progressive, and it is characterized by the gradual onset of impaired memory and deficits in two or more areas of cognition, such as anomia, agnosia or apraxia.
    • Motor dysfunction of the hands often manifests itself as ‘clumsiness’ that mimics cerebral apraxia, rather than as objective weakness.
    • Inability to execute an intended action is known as apraxia, slowness and difficulty in doing it is dyspraxia.
    • Yes, it's about dreams (both nightly kind and aspirations - Hollywood) but also about mental incoherence, brain damage, aphasia, apraxia, agnosia.
    • An example of a test for apraxia is to ask the patient to pantomime the use of a common object such as a hammer or a toothbrush.

Origin

Late 19th century: from German Apraxie, from Greek apraxia ‘inaction’.

 
 
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