abasia Med.
(əˈbeɪsɪə)
[mod.L., ad. F. abasie, f. a- prefix 14 + Gr. βάσις step: see -ia.]
Inability to walk, caused by lack of coordination of the muscles. Hence aˈbasic a. Cf. astasia.
| 1890 [see astasia]. 1891 P. C. Knapp in Jrnl. Nerv. & Ment. Dis. XVI. 673 (title) Astasia-abasia, with the report of a case of paroxysmal trepidant abasia associated with paralysis agitans. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl., Abasia, abasic. 1918 A. A. Brill tr. Freud's Totem & Taboo 159 A motor inhibition, an abasia or an agoraphobia, becomes perfected and detailed. |