paralysis agitans
Britishnoun
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His paralysis agitans involved his whole emaciated body in one miserable stammer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Sir Henry Head, 79, famed British neurologist; of paralysis agitans; in Reading, England.
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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)
You seem perturbed, anxious, with slight symptoms of paralysis agitans.
From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Nicholson, Meredith
In a mild way paralysis agitans represents such a change in the central nervous system.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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