PARKINSON'S DISEASE


Meaning of PARKINSON'S DISEASE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈpär-kən-sənz- ]

noun

Etymology: James Parkinson died 1824 English physician

Date: 1877

: a chronic progressive neurological disease chiefly of later life that is linked to decreased dopamine production in the substantia nigra and is marked especially by tremor of resting muscles, rigidity, slowness of movement, impaired balance, and a shuffling gait — called also paralysis agitans, Parkinson's, Parkinson's syndrome

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