- parenchymatous neurosyphilis
- neurosyphilis that causes widespread parenchymal damage; called also parenchymatous syphilis. See general paresis, under paresis, and tabes dorsalis.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
parenchymatous neurosyphilis
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