forme fruste

noun

An incomplete form or partial symptom of a disease.

“Essential tremor, a neurological disorder that causes hand tremors, is suspected by some researchers to be a forme fruste of Parkinson's disease.”

OriginFrench forme fruste →
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Meanings

nounforme fruste (plural formes frustes)

plural formes frustes

  1. medicineAn incomplete form or partial symptom of a disease.

    Essential tremor, a neurological disorder that causes hand tremors, is suspected by some researchers to be a forme fruste of Parkinson's disease.

Origin

  1. Frenchforme fruste
  2. Frenchforme fruste
  3. Englishforme fruste

Borrowed from French forme fruste.

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