1899 A. Church & F. Peterson Nervous & Mental Dis. vii. iii. 516 The gait of Parkinsonians is strikingly peculiar.

1949 Lancet 26 Feb. 364/2 The parkinsonian has difficulty in starting to walk, and in stopping when once started.

1973 M. Riklan L-Dopa & Parkinsonism iii. 185 In the usual therapeutic dosages, L-Dopa has a wide variety of behavioral effects, both positive and negative, on the behavior of the parkinsonian.

2000 Nassau Guardian 23 Nov. 4/5 There will be a general monthly meeting for Parkinsonians, their relatives, caregivers and the general public.

1906 J. P. Stewart Diagnosis of Nerv. Dis. xvii. 243 The posture and gait of paralysis agitans are diagnostic... In a well-marked case the patient stands with the trunk stooping forwards, the face appearing ‘starched’ and expressionless—the so-called ‘Parkinsonian mask’, in which there is little or no emotional play of features.

1924 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 59 225 The etiology of the Parkinsonian syndrome, except that due to epidemic encephalitis, is obscure.

1930 Arch. Ophthalmol. 4 364 Neurologic examination revealed a characteristic postencephalitic parkinsonian facies, gait and attitude.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxix. 1123 Frequently, so much damage has been done to the brain-tissues that a complete recovery is impossible, and a series of chronic affections of the nature of pareses, disordered movements of Parkinsonian type, and mental disturbances may persist.

1967 Brain 90 865 One month later, he developed Parkinsonian facies, pill-rolling tremor in the right hand, right ptosis, left facial weakness and deviation of the palate and tongue to the right.

1989 Brain 112 997 There was an indication of movement coordination aberrations in these parkinsonian subjects.

2001 J. Franzen Corrections 171 In a different Search field, his hands a little parkinsonian, Gary entered the words beautiful, nude, and blond.

1959 Times 3 Mar. 3/7 A port scene by Seurat, compounded of a thousand ‘pointillist’ dots must seem to Parkinsonians like a troupe of typists at £12 a week and 10 clerks at £20..all busily employed in the composition and dispatch of a ‘Yours of the 9th to hand’.

1959 Times 5 May 11/5 They seem, perhaps, to be in some danger of falling into the (Parkinsonian?) trap of treating theoretical maxima as practical minima.

1971 C. Russell Crisis of Parliaments iii. i. 110 The Parkinsonian process..was accelerated by the increase in government business.

1992 R. Alexander Policy & Pract. Primary Educ. iv. 70 Perhaps, too, there is a Parkinsonian effect at work here: the standard allocation for mathematics in primary schools, often regardless of the ground to be covered, has for decades been the equivalent of an hour a day.