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paraballism

paraballism noun: ballism that affects both legs.

Noun

paraballism (uncountable)

  1. Ballism that affects both legs.
    • 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.1965, Books from Hungary - Volumes 7-9, page 26
    • 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.2012, Robert B. Daroff, Gerald M Fenichel, Joseph Jankovic, Neurology in Clinical Practice, →ISBN

Origin of paraballism

From para- + ballism.

Questions about paraballism

What does paraballism mean?
Paraballism means ballism that affects both legs.
What part of speech is paraballism?
Paraballism is a noun.

Words near paraballism in the dictionary

  1. paraautochthonous
  2. parabactin
  3. parabaik
  4. parabaiks
  5. parabalistic
  6. paraballism
  7. paraballistic
  8. parabanate
  9. parabanates
  10. parabanic
  11. parabanic acid

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