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paretic, a. and n. Path.|pəˈrɛtɪk|
[ad. mod.L. paretic-us, f. Gr. πάρετ-ος relaxed, palsied: see -ic.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to paresis; affected with or characterized by paresis.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 480 A debilitated and paretic state of the liver. 1888Forum (U.S.) Sept. 101 The increase of paretic dementia, and the increase of alcoholic insanity. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 350 The use of the kathode for paralytic or paretic states.
B. n. A person affected with paresis.
1881Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Mar. 394/1 Local anæsthesia seems..the rule with paretics. 1924[see confabulate v. 2]. 1957J. Kerouac On Road (1958) ii. vi. 142 An old college schoolmate whose father, a mad paretic, had died and left a fortune. 1972Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry CXXI. 146/1 Quite a few paretics can be rehabilitated following a complete treatment.
Hence paˈretically adv.
1878Smithsonian Inst. Rep. 361 He proved that..currents [of galvanism] travelling in both directions act paretically. |