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eupraxia

eupraxia noun: positive skills related to movement.

Noun

eupraxia (uncountable)

  1. Positive skills related to movement.
    • Both studies show that speech and speech reading skills in deaf preschool children age 3.5 to 6 years depend strongly on fine motor skill of hand and mouth, successive memory and memory for rhythm. These three interdependent skills are taken as three aspects of eupraxia.1997, M. L. Broesterhuizen, “Psychological assessment of deaf children”, in Scand Audiol Suppl., pages 43-49
  2. Eupraxy.

Origin of eupraxia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek εὐπραξία (eupraxía, “living well, acting well”), equivalent to eu- + -praxia.

Questions about eupraxia

What does eupraxia mean?
Eupraxia means positive skills related to movement.
What part of speech is eupraxia?
Eupraxia is a noun.

Words near eupraxia in the dictionary

  1. eupolypods
  2. eupomatenoid
  3. eupomatenoids
  4. eupomatiaceous
  5. Euporie
  6. eupraxia
  7. eupraxophies
  8. eupraxophy
  9. eupraxsophies
  10. eupraxsophy
  11. eupraxy

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