paresis
- n a slight or partial paralysis
- Announcements were made from Copenhagen and Washington of remarkable improvement in cases of general paresis (a degenerative disease of the brain, usually fatal, and caused by .
- There he will be safer from fellow-prisoners' attempts to kill him, and will be treated for paresis, which makes him periodically violent.
- He died at the age of 51 of paresis and blood poisoning.