Definitions for paresis

paresis pa·re·sis

Spelling: [puh-ree-sis, par-uh-sis]
IPA: /pəˈri sɪs, ˈpær ə sɪs/

Paresis is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 271 anagrams from letters in paresis (aeiprss).

Definitions for paresis

noun

  1. partial motor paralysis.
  2. a late manifestation of syphilis, characterized by progressive dementia and paralysis.

Origin of paresis

1685-95; New Latin Greek páresis paralysis, a letting go, equivalent to pare- (variant stem of pariénai to let go) + -sis -sis

Examples for paresis

It is worthy of note that the appearance of paresis preceded the convulsions.

If so, he promptly decided to have an acute attack of paresis.

My diagnosis was paresis of the muscularis of the intestine.

They may also die of spinal consumption or paresis between the ages of 10 and 20.

These were nystagmus, paresis of facial muscles, laryngeal spasms, etc.

Mr. Walton is now an inmate of a sanitarium, a victim of paresis.

Savages have paresis, apoplexy, and imbecility, seldom or never insanity.

It was not the fear of paresis, or of any other consequence of the disease.

This truly pathognomic condition is never absent, and becomes intense when paresis becomes intensified into paralysis.

The all absorbing topic to me in the pipe house was paresis.

Word Value for paresis
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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