Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun guillain-barre_syndrome

1 sense of guillain-barre syndrome

Sense 1
Guillain-Barre syndrome, infectious polyneuritis, Landry's paralysis -- (a form of peripheral polyneuritis characterized by pain and weakness and sometimes paralysis of the limbs; cause is unknown)
       => polyneuritis, multiple neuritis -- (inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy))