PARESIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paresis mean? 

• PARESIS (noun)
  The noun PARESIS has 1 sense:

1. a slight or partial paralysis

  Familiarity information: PARESIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARESIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slight or partial paralysis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("paresis" is a kind of...):

palsy; paralysis (loss of the ability to move a body part)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paresis"):

paraparesis (a slight paralysis or weakness of both legs)

 Context examples 

NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION DISEASES and MUSCULAR DISEASES may also cause facial paralysis or paresis.

(Facial Nerve Paralysis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The most common presenting symptoms are headache, nausea, vomiting, ataxia of gait or limb, paresis, diplopia, and dizziness.

(Cerebellar Astrocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

You enlarge my view of the possible. Cerebral paresis! Mental inertia! Wonderful!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)