GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A form of peripheral polyneuritis characterized by pain and weakness and sometimes paralysis of the limbs; cause is unknown

Synonyms:

Guillain-Barre syndrome; infectious polyneuritis; Landry's paralysis

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Guillain-Barre syndrome" is a kind of...):

multiple neuritis; polyneuritis (inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy))

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