parkinsonism
/pˈɑɹkɪnsənˌɪzɪm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.89 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A neurological syndrome characterized by tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, and postural instability; a condition with the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, regardless of its cause.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In 1982, a number of young California drug addicts developed acute and severe parkinsonism after intravenous injection of a synthetic heroin contaminated by MPTP."
- "However, it is important for the clinician to consider alternative diagnoses, particularly treatable, potentially reversible syndromes such as drug-induced parkinsonism, hydrocephalus and other structural abnormalities, Wilson's disease, and some forms of toxic, metabolic, and infectious parkinsonism."
- "Can risperidone cause parkinsonism? What evidence suggests that J.R. has antipsychotic-induced parkinsonism?"
- "[…] a famous case, in the 1890s, in which the development of a one-sided Parkinsonism was correlated with the growth of a tuberculoma of one cerebral peduncle […]"