paresis

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If, as often happens, the paresis is accompanied by violent and uncontrollable trembling, it can prove a tad more difficult to maintain one's flamboyance, but it is by no means an impossibility.

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  • Paralysis, paresis, or recent plaster immobilisation of the lower extremities - 1 point —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Paralysis, paresis, or recent cast immobilization of lower extremities -- 1 point —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • If, as often happens, the paresis is accompanied by violent and uncontrollable trembling, it can prove a tad more difficult to maintain one's flamboyance, but it is by no means an impossibility. —  Hooting Yard
  • Incomparably small, on the other hand, is the aid which psychotherapy can offer in cases of real destructions in the brain, as in the case of tumors, hemorrhage, paresis or the degeneration by senility. —  Psychotherapy
  • We have seen that the work of the psychotherapist is of very unequal value in different parts of the field; in some, as in neurasthenia, in psychasthenia, in hysteria and similar regions most effective, in others like paresis or paranoia reduced to an almost insignificant factor. —  Psychotherapy
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  1. Greek, act of letting go, paralysis, from parīenai, to let fall : para-, beside; see para-1 + hīenai, to throw; see yē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French parésie, from New Latin paresis, from Greek πάρεσις, a letting go, paralysis, from παριέναι, relax, from παρά, from, + ἱέναι, let go.
 

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