paralysis agitans
Britishnoun
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Sir Henry Head, 79, famed British neurologist; of paralysis agitans; in Reading, England.
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His paralysis agitans involved his whole emaciated body in one miserable stammer.
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I think that there is a report of some cases of paralysis agitans being improved by injections of diphtheria serum.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
In older people they sometimes pass over into paralysis agitans or a close simulant of that affection.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
The only nervous affections with which it could possibly be confounded are chorea and paralysis agitans.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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