PARENZO, a small but strong town of Italy, and in Istria, with a bishop's see and a good harbour; seated

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Parenzo ed on the gulf of Venice, in E. Long. 13. 46. N. Lat. 39. 28. It submitted to the Venetians in 1267.

Parhelion. PARESIS, in Medicine, a palsy of the bladder, wherein the urine is either suppressed or discharged involuntarily.