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Did parkinsonism occur before 1817?
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- Published on: 15 March 2011Disease progression or deterioration?Show More
Most authorities, from Samuel Johnson's to the current Oxford University Dictionary, define "progression" as a change for the better stemming from the Latin "prograde" to improve continuously and "deterioration" as a change for the worse (Latin "deteriore"). Yet most neurological journals appear to accept "disease progression" (as in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis and progressive supranuclear palsy) to indicat...
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