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
I think that there is a report of some cases of paralysis agitans being improved by injections of diphtheria serum.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
In older people they sometimes pass over into paralysis agitans or a close simulant of that affection.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Paresis, locomotor ataxy and paralysis agitans are not, as is usually assumed, due to secondary and tertiary syphilis, but to the mercury administered for the cure of luetic and other diseases.
From Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr
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