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 n.β€” Β«The final diagnosis ended up being “idiopathic bilateral lower extremity paresis”β€”a fancy way of saying both of his legs were weak, and we didn’t know why. We sent him to a nursing home where he could get some physical therapyβ€”a “sniff,” or skilled nursing facility (SNF) in doctor parlance-and pretty much washed our hands of the whole thing.Β» β€”β€œTell me a story” by Alex Fanaroff in Duke University The Chronicle (Durham, North Carolina) Feb. 26, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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