Meaning of Parkinsonism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of parkinsonism.
   alt-of, countable, uncountable
2. 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

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Examples

“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 […]”

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