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Parkinson's   /pˈɑrkɪnsənz/   Listen
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Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's  n.  A disease causing parkinsonism, a degenerative nervous disorder; sometimes used loosely as a synonym for parkinsonism. More precisely, parkinson's disease is the term for the underlying physiological disorder and parkinsonism is the term for the set of symptoms associated with the disease. See parkinsonism.
Synonyms: paralysis agitans, Parkinsonism, Parkinson's disease syndrome, shaking palsy. "Parkinson's disease is the most common form of parkinsonism, a group of disorders that are the result of the loss of dopamine-producing brain cells." "According to the National Parkinson's Foundation (NPF), 1 million Americans including former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, and television and film star Michael J. Fox are affected by Parkinson's disease."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... were to assemble the next day in Braddock's field, in order to carry into effect such further measures as might be deemed adviseable with respect to the excise and its friends. They also determined to elect delegates to a convention which was to meet, on the 14th of August, at Parkinson's ferry. The avowed motives to these outrages were to compel the resignation of all officers engaged in the collection of the duties on distilled spirits; to withstand by force of arms the authority of the United States; and thereby to extort a repeal ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 (of 5) • John Marshall



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