paralysis agitans
Britishnoun
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His paralysis agitans involved his whole emaciated body in one miserable stammer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir Henry Head, 79, famed British neurologist; of paralysis agitans; in Reading, England.
From Time Magazine Archive
You seem perturbed, anxious, with slight symptoms of paralysis agitans.
From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Nicholson, Meredith
Movements, co-ordinate, in ataxia, 204. in paralysis agitans, 231. in paraplegia, 223. in spastic paralysis, 226.
From Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria by Mitchell, John K.
In the old days when malaria was a common diagnosis for many different conditions, paralysis agitans apparently followed malaria so often that there was thought to be some connection between the two diseases.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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