FromNew Latin, fromAncient Greekπάρεσις(páresis,“letting go, paralysis”), fromπάρειμι(páreimi,“relax”), fromπαρα-(para-) +εἶμι(eîmi,“let go”).
paresis (countable anduncountable,pluralpareses)
- Aparalysis which is incomplete or which occurs in isolated areas.
- Inflammation of thebrain as a cause ofdementia orparalysis.
- “paresis”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “paresis”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “paresis”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
