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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 shak·ing palsy /ˈʃekɪŋ-/ 名詞
 震顫痲痺

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

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