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mercy

n. kindness, compassion, or leniency toward a transgressor, toward someone over whom one has power or authority, or toward someone in distress.

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Nothnagel’s acroparesthesia

Nothnagel’s acroparesthesia

see acroparesthesia. [Carl Wilhelm Hermann Nothnagel (1841–1905), German neurologist]