Parkinson's syndrome

Parkinson's syndrome
a complex of symptoms indistinguishable from parkinsonism, commonly affecting boxers or sometimes occurring as a result of substance abuse or an encephalitic infection.
[1950-55; see PARKINSONISM]

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