Alternative forms

• general paresis (short form), GPI (initialism)

Noun

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1. (pathologyCategory:en:Pathology#GENERALPARESISOFTHEINSANE) A neuropsychiatric disorder caused by late-stage syphilis, and characterized by fatigue, headaches, insomnia, personality changes, delusions, etc. [from 19th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 487:

     General paresis was described in 1822 by Antoine Laurent Bayle (1799–1858).

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Further reading

• general paresis of the insane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia