Because Parkinsonâs disease symptoms are due to a deficiency of the brain chemical dopamine, the main drug treatments help increase dopamine levels in the brain. Levadopa, usually combined with carbidopa, is the standard drug treatment.
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word poison-ivy. Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: poison-ivy(Noun) A woody vine plant in the family Anacardiaceae well-known for its ability to produce urushiol, a skin irritant that causes an itching rash for most people.
either of two shrubs, Rhus toxicodendron, of the eastern U.S., or R. diversiloba, of the Pacific coast of North America, resembling poison ivy and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to them. Expand. Also called poison ivy. There is a poison ivy (or poison oak) which is very poisonous to some people, and more or less so to all people. The woods about this country are full o' poison oak, and that's where we get the name. The leaves represented were indisputably those of the poison oak.