shaking palsy

Questions about shaking palsy

What does shaking palsy mean?

shaking palsy means "a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination".

What is another word for shaking palsy?

Close synonyms include paralysis agitans, Parkinsonism, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's syndrome, Parkinson's. 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 shaking palsy a common word?

shaking palsy 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.