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
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
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
A paretic patient can never be completely cured.
From Time Magazine Archive
He thought of going back to Boston, and in one instance he accepted and conducted a case in the court of Common Pleas; but his manner was that of a paretic giant.
From James Otis, the pre-revolutionist by John Clark Ridpath
