PARKINSON

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• PARKINSON (noun)
  The noun PARKINSON has 2 senses:

1. English surgeon (1755-1824)

2. British historian noted for ridicule of bureaucracies (1909-1993)

  Familiarity information: PARKINSON used as a noun is rare.

• PARKINSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English surgeon (1755-1824)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

James Parkinson; Parkinson

Instance hypernyms:

operating surgeon; sawbones; surgeon (a physician who specializes in surgery)

Sense 2

Meaning:

British historian noted for ridicule of bureaucracies (1909-1993)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

C. Northcote Parkinson; Cyril Northcote Parkinson; Parkinson

Instance hypernyms:

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)

 Context examples 

Causes include brain damage, Parkinson disease, and developmental causes.

(Dysarthria, NCI Thesaurus)

Individuals who are poor metabolizers of cytochrome P450 2D6 substrates are at increased risk for the development of pesticide-induced somatic Parkinson's disease.

(CYP2D6 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale test name.

(CDISC Questionnaire UPDRS Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Allelic variants are associated with Parkinson disease pathology.

(FGF20 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Expression of this gene at reduced levels may contribute to the pathology of Parkinson's Disease.

(FOXA2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

While it has no known role in oncogenesis, MIR433 plays a role in the development of Parkinson's disease.

(MIR433 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Alteration in the expression of this gene is associated with the development of squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue and Parkinson's disease.

(MIR133B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Test names of questionnaire questions associated with the unified parkinson's disease rating scale (UPDRS) for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC Questionnaire UPDRS Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale test code.

(CDISC Questionnaire UPDRS Test Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The Movement Disorder Society version of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale test name.

(CDISC Questionnaire MDS-UPDRS Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)