shaking palsy

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. Parkinson's disease.

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shaking palsy British  

noun

1. another name for Parkinson's disease

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Etymology

Origin of shaking palsy

First recorded in 1605–15

Example Sentences

I wondered how could this man be forgotten when everybody knows his name, because he was the first to describe the shaking palsy condition that later became known as Parkinson’s disease?

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2017

A million or more Americans, most of them over 50, suffer from Parkinson's disease, once generally known as "shaking palsy."

From Time Magazine Archive

Known to most laymen as "shaking palsy," the condition was named for James Parkinson, an English physician who described it in 1817.

From Time Magazine Archive

Belladonna is used for ailments of the intestinal and respiratory tracts, the circulatory system, dilating the pupils for eye examination, treating shaking palsy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Today, however, we remember him for his landmark study of the affliction then called the "shaking palsy," but known ever since as Parkinson’s disease.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson