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paralysis agitans

NOUN
Parkinson's disease
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Sir Henry Head, 79, famed British neurologist; of paralysis agitans; in Reading, England.

From Time Magazine Archive

His paralysis agitans involved his whole emaciated body in one miserable stammer.

From Time Magazine Archive

I think that there is a report of some cases of paralysis agitans being improved by injections of diphtheria serum.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

The most common type of involuntary tremor is that seen in paralysis agitans to which a special chapter is devoted.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Let nobody suppose for a moment that this was a case of paralysis agitans, or St. Vitus' Dance.

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe




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