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Definition of Paralysis agitans

1. Noun. A degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination.

Medical Definition of Paralysis agitans

1. An obsolete term for parkinsonism. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paralysis Agitans

Literary usage of Paralysis agitans

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"When we used the term " typical paralysis agitans." the question at once arose, was there such a thing. The condition rather represented a syndrome, ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"His face is mask-like, suggesting strongly the facies of paralysis agitans. His speech is slow and monotonous and hard to understand. ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"The Treatment of paralysis agitans with the Parathyroid Gland. BERKELEY (Med. Record, 1916, xc, 105) says that further experience seems to justify the ..."

4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1894)
"paralysis agitans sine ... displayed characteristic masklike rigidity of the face with the attitude of paralysis agitans—the stooping shoulders, bent back, ..."

5. Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System: Delivered at La Salpêtrière by Jean Martin Charcot (1879)
"paralysis agitans admitted to the right of domicile in classic treatises Fundamental characters of paralysis agitans. A disease of adult life. Its symptoms. ..."

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