paresis
noun
partial motor paralysis.
Example Sentences
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In three Illinois insane asylums 37 women and 35 men paretic inmates were held firmly down on their cots.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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 Algerines were now sweeping with their paretic crafts the Mediterranean, exacting tribute from all Christian powers.
From Napoleon Bonaparte by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
