from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Slight or partial paralysis.
- n. General paresis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A paralysis which is incomplete or which occurs in isolated areas.
- n. Inflammation of the brain as a cause of dementia or paralysis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An incomplete degree of paralysis.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a slight or partial paralysis
In this case the patient dies for want of nourishment; either in three or four weeks, of the inirritative fever; or without quick pulse, by what we have called paresis irritativa.
In November 1939, suffering from the general deterioration of paresis (a late stage of syphilis), he was released and entered a Baltimore hospital.
Medical professionals will tell you that both types of diabetes are serious because they can cause the same debilitating and life-threatening diabetic complications, including heart attack, stroke, nerve damage, kidney failure, blindness, amputation, gastro-paresis, and sexual dysfunction.
Actually, he tried tuberculin first, but tuberculosis, while perhaps preferable to general paresis, is still a pretty devastating disease.
Her father, an engineer, died of paresis (syphilitic insanity) when Hannah was seven, and episodic battles between Russian and German armies were fought near their home soon thereafter.
In 1931 there were no medications to treat mental illness (lobotomies came into vogue in 1935, for example) and psychiatry was divided between those doctors treating state hospital patients (many of whom had paresis or were schizophrenic/bipolar) who were considered “organic” and those who were more psychoanalytic, mostly in big cities.
I can cause a shaking that is called 'paralytic dementia', but used to be called 'general paresis of the insane'.
Among these clearly would be Alzheimer's and other dementias, the general paresis caused by syphilis, and various other conditions known to have clear organic etiologies.
Less severe forms may befall the swain who keeps his arm on his date's chair back for an entire double feature, ignoring the growing pain and paresis.
He looked in upon a frail exile from the Caucasus buckled securely in a sort of hammock which in turn was submerged in a warm medical bath, and upon the three daughters of a Portuguese general who slid almost imperceptibly toward paresis.