paresis
noun
partial motor paralysis.
Example Sentences
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A paretic patient can never be completely cured.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the marshal who served him at his walled Palm Island, Fla. estate, paretic Al pouted: "This won't make me feel very good."
From Time Magazine Archive
Impulse to this development was the success which Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg of Vienna had in curing paretic Austrian soldiers by means of inoculations of malaria germs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Public Enemy No. 1, for years a mentally incompetent paretic; following a stroke and pneumonia; at his palatial villa near Miami Beach.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old, the feeble, the paralytic, and paretic need special care.
From How to Care for the Insane A Manual for Nurses by William D. Granger
