PARKINSON'S DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Parkinson's disease mean? 

• PARKINSON'S DISEASE (noun)
  The noun PARKINSON'S DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination

  Familiarity information: PARKINSON'S DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARKINSON'S DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

paralysis agitans; Parkinson's; Parkinson's disease; Parkinson's syndrome; Parkinsonism; shaking palsy

Hypernyms ("Parkinson's disease" is a kind of...):

degenerative disorder (condition leading to progressive loss of function)

brain disease; brain disorder; encephalopathy (any disorder or disease of the brain)

Meronyms (parts of "Parkinson's disease"):

tremor (shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease))

 Context examples 

Any agent that is used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

(Antiparkinsonian Agent, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(CDISC Questionnaire PDQUALIF Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Cabergoline is used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease and in the treatment of hyperprolactinemia.

(Cabergoline, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers have created better biosensor technology using a newly developed instrument that may lead to safe stem cell therapies for treating Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases and other neurological disorders.

(Better biosensor technology created for stem cells, National Science Foundation)

Examples of neurodegenerative disorders include Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

(Neurodegenerative disorder, NCI Dictionary)

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative movement disorder that results primarily from the death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra.

(Parkinson's Disease Pathway KEGG, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The motor defects of Parkinson's disease are related to the loss of dopaminergic neurons in specific brain regions.

(Parkinson's Disease Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Certain allelic variants of the NOS1 gene are associated with susceptibility to either infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis or Parkinson's disease.

(NOS1 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)