paralytic rabies

paralytic rabies
paralytic rabies n rabies marked by sluggishness and by early paralysis esp. of the muscles of jaw and throat called also dumb rabies compare FURIOUS RABIES

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a stage or form of rabies in which the most prominent symptom is ascending paralysis. Called also dumb r.

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