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Definition of Paresis
1. Noun. A slight or partial paralysis.
Definition of Paresis
1. n. Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.
Definition of Paresis
1. Noun. A paralysis which is incomplete or which occurs in isolated areas. ¹
2. Noun. Inflammation of the brain as a cause of dementia or paralysis. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Paresis
1. partial loss of the ability to move [n -RESES]
Medical Definition of Paresis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Paresis
Literary usage of Paresis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"GENERAL paresis (known also as general paralysis, softening of the brain, paralytic
dementia, general paralysis of the insane, etc. ..."
2. 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 (1920)
"The older textbooks and many of the older writers were prone to assign to the
role that trauma played in the production of paresis a fairly prominent place. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"THE pathological changes of the brain and meninges found in paresis are based on
162 postmortem examinations on cases of paresis performed at the Norristown ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"paresis question is so important, and apparently so unknown to some, ...
Hirschl regarded paresis as nothing more than a late effect of syphilis, ..."
5. The Unsound Mind and the Law: A Presentation of Forensic Psychiatry by George W. Jacoby (1918)
"If no somatic symptoms of paresis can be discovered, a differential diagnosis
cannot be made until the further course of the disease introduces ..."
6. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"David Collins we present as a good example of social problems in that common form
of syphilitic mental disease known as general paresis. General paresis is ..."
7. Organic and Functional Nervous Diseases: A Text-book of Neurology by Moses Allen Starr (1913)
"Males are much more liable to paresis than females.1 Inherited weakness of the
nervous system predisposes the individual to the development of paresis. ..."
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