parkinson's disease

Questions about parkinson's disease

What does parkinson's disease mean?

parkinson's disease means "a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination".

What is another word for parkinson's disease?

Close synonyms include paralysis agitans, Parkinsonism, Parkinson's syndrome, Parkinson's, shaking palsy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is parkinson's disease a common word?

parkinson's disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.