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Noun: Guillain-Barré syndrome
  1. A form of peripheral polyneuritis characterized by pain and weakness and sometimes paralysis of the limbs; cause is unknown
    - infectious polyneuritis, Landry's paralysis

Type of: multiple neuritis, polyneuritis

Encyclopedia: Guillain-Barré syndrome