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GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Classified under:
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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