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clinical type
clinical type In this historical usage, clinical type means the characteristic pattern of symptoms by which a disease presents in practice.
In this historical usage, clinical type means the characteristic pattern of symptoms by which a disease presents in practice. In the passage, it refers to the usual symptom picture of intracranial hereditary syphilis, described as spastic weakness of the limbs with convulsive attacks and some mental decline.