Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

paraballism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: para-bal-lism
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Ballism that affects both legs.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The book deals with cerebral injuries impeding the clinical appearance of ballism, particularly stressing interrelations of ballism and chorea. Based on personal experiments, the author discusses paraballism too."
"Ballism is a dramatic proximal ballistic flinging movement (see Chapter 21) that most commonly affects the limbs on one side of the body (hemiballism), but involvement in both legs (paraballism) or both sides of the body (biballism) has been reported."
"Rarely, it can occur bilaterally (biballism) or affect both legs (paraballism)."

Etymology

From para- + ballism.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: para

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does paraballism mean?: Ballism that affects both legs.
Where does paraballism come from?: From para- + ballism.

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