Paraballism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Paraballism is a noun meaning (medicine) Ballism that affects both legs.
Meaning
(medicine) Ballism that affects both legs.
Example Sentences
Rarely, it can occur bilaterally (biballism) or affect both legs (paraballism).
The book deals with cerebral injuries impeding the clinical appearance of ballism, particularly stressing interrelations of ballism and chorea. Based on personal experiments, the author discusses paraballism too.
Ballism is a dramatic proximal ballistic flinging movement (see Chapter 21) that most commonly affects the limbs on one side of the body (hemiballism), but involvement in both legs (paraballism) or both sides of the body (biballism) has been reported.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include biballism, hemiballismus, hemiballism, ballismus, paraplegia, parabotulism.
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