hereditary cerebellar ataxia

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   nervous disorder of late childhood and early adulthood; characterized by ataxic gait and hesitating or explosive speech and nystagmus

   Broaderataxia

Questions about hereditary cerebellar ataxia

What does hereditary cerebellar ataxia mean?

hereditary cerebellar ataxia means "nervous disorder of late childhood and early adulthood; characterized by ataxic gait and hesitating or explosive speech and nystagmus".

Is hereditary cerebellar ataxia a common word?

hereditary cerebellar ataxia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.