apraxia Path.
(əˈpræksɪə)
[mod.L., ad. Ger. apraxie (H. Steinthal Einleit. in d. Psychologie (1871) 458), a. Gr. ἀπραξία inaction.]
Inability to perform purposeful movements; loss of ability to ‘do’.
| 1888 M. A. Starr in Med. Record XXXIV. 497 (title) Apraxia and Aphasia; their varieties, and the methods..for their detection. 1922 R. S. Woodworth Psychology iii. 57 Injury to the ‘super-motor centers’ causes loss of skilled movement, and produces the condition of ‘apraxia’, in which the subject, though knowing what he wants to do, and though still able to move his limbs, simply cannot get the combination for the skilled act that he has in mind. 1961 Lancet 12 Aug. 363/2 The nature of the fundamental deficits underlying constructional apraxia..has not been elucidated. |