noun. Total or partial loss of the ability to perform coordinated movements or manipulate objects in the absence of motor or sensory impairment.

noun. In pathology, loss of the knowledge of the uses of things.

noun. inability to make purposeful movements, but without paralysis or loss of sensory function.

noun. Total or partial loss of the ability to perform coordinated movements or manipulate objects in the absence of motor or sensory impairment; specifically, a disorder of motor planning.

noun. inability to make purposeful movements

"We took him to the doctors, the developmental pediatricians, and they said oh, he has something called apraxia, which is a fancy label for a speech delay."

avolition  praxis  

brain disease  brain disorder  encephalopathy  

agnosia  aphasia  aphonia  berating  dementia