abasias
n. uncountablen. a medical condition where you lose the ability to walk properly because you cannot coordinate your muscles. It often happens even though your legs are still strong and healthy.
n. an inability to walk due to a lack of muscular coordination, typically of psychogenic or neurological origin. The condition is distinct from paralysis as the physical strength of the limbs remains intact.
The doctor diagnosed him with abasia after he struggled to walk.
Following the traumatic event, the patient developed abasia and required physical therapy to regain his walking rhythm.
Clinical observation of abasia requires distinguishing between a genuine neurological deficit and psychogenic factors where the patient's gait appears dramatically unstable yet they never actually fall.
Often appears in medical literature alongside 'astasia' to describe a combined inability to stand or walk.