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PARAPARESIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does paraparesis mean?
• PARAPARESIS (noun)
The noun PARAPARESIS has 1 sense:
1. a slight paralysis or weakness of both legs
Familiarity information: PARAPARESIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A slight paralysis or weakness of both legs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("paraparesis" is a kind of...):
paresis (a slight or partial paralysis)
Context examples
Human T-lymphotropic virus-1 (HTLV-1) is associated with adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) and HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP).
(HTLV-1, NCI Thesaurus)
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