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Parkinsonism

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Noun
  1. 1
    A neurological syndrome characterized by tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, and postural instability; a condition with the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, regardless of its cause. countable, uncountable

    "In 1982, a number of young California drug addicts developed acute and severe parkinsonism after intravenous injection of a synthetic heroin contaminated by MPTP."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of parkinsonism. alt-of, countable, uncountable

    "[…] a famous case, in the 1890s, in which the development of a one-sided Parkinsonism was correlated with the growth of a tuberculoma of one cerebral peduncle […]"

  3. 3
    a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination wordnet

Etymology

From Parkinson + -ism.

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