dyspraxia

English

Noun

dyspraxia (countable and uncountable, plural dyspraxias)

(medicine) a genetically caused neurological disorder in which a person has severely below average motor skills due to the brain being unable to consistently send messages accurately to the body for planning of motor movements.

He had to quit dishwashing at the restaurant because his dyspraxia made him unable to do the work.

Derived terms

dyspraxic

Translations

disorder

Czech: dyspraxie f

Finnish: dyspraksia (fi)

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