Definition of Paretic

1. Noun. A person afflicted with paresis (partial paralysis).

Generic synonyms: Paralytic

Definition of Paretic

1. a. Of or pertaining to paresis; affected with paresis.

Definition of Paretic

1. Adjective. pertaining to paresis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Paretic

1. one affected with paresis [n -S]

Medical Definition of Paretic

1. Relating to or suffering from paresis. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paretic

parerethisis
parerga
parergasia
parergon
parers
pares
pareses
paresis
parestheses
paresthesia
paresthesias
paresthesis
paresthetic
parethmoid
parethmoids
paretic (current term)
paretic impotence
paretic neurosyphilis
paretics
pareu
pareus
pareve
parfait
parfaits
parfay
parfit
parfitly
parfleche

Literary usage of Paretic

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 (1915)
"... Founded in 1874 Original articles REPORT OF CASE OF PEMPHIGUS IN A paretic* BY MAX A. BAHR, MD AND FRED'K C. POTTER, MD CENTRAL INDIANA HOSPITAL FOR THE ..."

2. A Text-book on Nervous Diseases by Francis Xavier Dercum (1895)
"paretic DEMENTIA. BY FX DERCUM, MD In a work upon diseases of the nervous system, an affection presenting such profound pathological changes as paretic ..."

3. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1913)
"All of the 12 cases were clinically as well as anatomically typical instances of paretic dementia and 5 of them were cases of tabo- paresis ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association Annual Meeting by American Psychiatric Association (1899)
"DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF paretic AND PSEUDO-paretic STATES. ... And may not this paretic temperament be one of the determining elements which decides why, ..."

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