Parkinson's disease
noun
Par·kin·son's disease
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Definition of Parkinson's disease
: a chronic progressive neurological disease chiefly of later life that is linked to decreased dopamine production in the substantia nigra and is marked especially by tremor of resting muscles, rigidity, slowness of movement, impaired balance, and a shuffling gait
— called also paralysis agitans, Parkinson's, Parkinson's syndrome
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Parkinson's disease
noun
English Language Learners Definition of Parkinson's disease
medical
: a disease that affects the nervous system and causes people's muscles to become weak and their arms and legs to shake
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Parkinson's disease
noun
Par·kin·son's disease
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variants:
also Parkinson disease \ -sən- \
or Parkinson's
Medical Definition of Parkinson's disease
: a chronic progressive neurological disease chiefly of later life that is linked to decreased dopamine production in the substantia nigra, is of unknown cause, and is marked especially by tremor of resting muscles, rigidity, slowness of movement, impaired balance, and a shuffling gait
— called also paralysis agitans, parkinsonian syndrome, parkinsonism, Parkinson's syndrome