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 Par·kin·son's disease /ˈpɑrkənsənz-/

 Par·kin·son's disease /-sən-/ 名詞

 Pal·sy n.; pl. Palsies   Med. Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis. “One sick of the palsy.”
 Bell's palsy, paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it.
 Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer.
 Shaking palsy, Med. paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait; now called parkinsonism, or Parkinson's disease.

 Parkinson's disease
      n : a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system
          characterized by tremor and impaired muscular
          coordination [syn: paralysis agitans, Parkinsonism, Parkinson's
          syndrome, Parkinson's, shaking palsy]