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  • 41somatoparaphrenia —    Also known as personification anosognosia. The term somatoparaphrenia comes from the Greek words soma (body), para (next to, in addition), and phrèn (nerve, diaphragm, heart). It was introduced in or shortly before 1942 by the Austrian… …

    Dictionary of Hallucinations

  • 42syphilitic hallucinosis —    The term syphilitic hallucinosis is used to denote a hallucinatory state attributable to syphilis. The medical Latin name syphilis comes from the Latin sus (swine), and the Greek philos (friend of). It was introduced in a medical didactic poem …

    Dictionary of Hallucinations

  • 43Claude hyperkinesis sign — reflex movements of paretic muscles elicited by painful stimuli …

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  • 44paralytic — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. powerless, immobile, inactive, paralyzed, crippled, insensible, physically disabled, palsied, siderated, paraplegic, diplegic, palsified; see also disabled , sick . n. Syn. paralysis victim, paretic, cripple, paralyzed… …

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  • 45Neurosyphilis —    The syphilitic infiltration of the central nervous system, though today belonging to internal medicine or neurology, was once treated by psychiatrists. The patients themselves frequently landed in asylums because the illness first becomes… …

    Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

  • 46paresis — [pə ri:sɪs, parɪsɪs] noun (plural pareses si:z) Medicine 1》 muscular weakness or partial paralysis caused by nerve damage or disease. 2》 (also general paresis) inflammation of the brain in the later stages of syphilis, causing progressive… …

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  • 47paralytic — n 1. paralysis victim, paralyzed person, cripple, handicapped person, palsy victim. adj 2. paralyzed, numb, insentient, insensible, dull, dead, stupefied; immobile, immobilized, inert, static, stationary, motionless, dormant, inactive, idle. 3.… …

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  • 48valetudinarian — n 1. invalid, sickly person, infirm person, convalescent, shut in, valetudinary; patient, inpatient, outpatient, case; sufferer, carrier, cripple, incurable, victim; hypochondriac, Pathol. neurasthenic, malingerer. adj 2. invalid, sick, sickly,… …

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  • 49hemi — hemi·ple·gic; hemi·trope; hemi·typic; hemi·ballismus; hemi·benthonic; hemi·cellulosic; hemi·ce·phal·ic; hemi·chordate; hemi·cryptophytic; hemi·elytrum; hemi·he·dral·ly; hemi·he·dric; hemi·he·dry; hemi·hy·drated; hemi·kar·y·ot·ic; hemi·metabole;… …

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  • 50hemiparetic — hemi·paretic …

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