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paresis

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Noun
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pa=re=sis

CIDE DICTIONARY

paresisn. [NL., from Gr. pa`resis, fr. parie`nai to let go; para` from + "ie`nai to send.].
     Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

paresis, n. (pl. pareses) Med. partial paralysis.

Derivative
paretic adj.
Etymology
mod.L f. Gk f. pariemi let go (as PARA-(1), hiemi let go)

THESAURUS

paresis

French disease, Spanish pox, VD, acquired syphilis, apoplexy, balanitis gangrenosa, catalepsy, cataplexy, cerebral tabes, chancre, chancroid, clap, claps, climatic bubo, congenital syphilis, constitutional syphilis, diplegia, dose, dose of clap, fifth venereal disease, general paresis, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, great pox, hard chancre, hemiplegia, infantile paralysis, latent syphilis, locomotor ataxia, morbus Gallicus, palsy, paralysis, paralytic dementia, paraplegia, polio, poliomyelitis, pox, pudendal ulcer, sensory paralysis, simple chancre, social disease, soft chancre, stroke, syph, syphilis, syphilitic meningoencephalitis, tabes, tabes dorsales, tertiary syphilis, tropical bubo, venereal disease

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