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paralysis

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES infantile paralysis COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB cause ▪ The leaves, and especially the seeds, can cause vomiting, paralysis , even death. ▪ And a stroke that suddenly killed perhaps 30 percent of the neurons in the ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from Latin paralysis , from Greek paralysis "paralysis, palsy," literally "loosening," from paralyein "disable, enfeeble," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + lyein "loosen, untie" (see lose ).\n \nFigurative use from 1813. Earlier form was paralysie ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) The complete loss of voluntary control of part of person's body, such as one or more limbs.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. loss of the ability to move a body part [syn: palsy ] [also: paralyses (pl)]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Paralysis is loss of muscle function for one or more muscles. Paralysis can be accompanied by a loss of feeling (sensory loss) in the affected area if there is sensory damage as well as motor. About 1 in 50 people have been diagnosed with some form of paralysis, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paralysis \Pa*ral"y*sis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. para`lysis, fr. paraly`ein to loosen, dissolve, or disable at the side; para` beside + ly`ein to loosen. See Para- , and Loose , and cf. Palsy .] (Med.) Abolition of function, whether complete or partial; esp., ...

Usage examples of paralysis.

It has not been our purpose to literally explain, in detail, the methods of applying vibratory motion in the treatment of paralysis for popular experiment, since to be successful one should become an expert, not only in this mechanical treatment, but also in the diagnosis of the various forms of paralysis, as well as familiar with their causes, pathology, and remedial requirements.

Should he continue, he would become a morphomaniac in a given time, and the apathy into which he fell prevented him from resisting the desire to absorb new doses of poison, a desire as imperious, as irresistible in morphinism as that of alcohol for the alcoholic, and more terrible in its effects--the perversion of the intellectual faculties, loss of will, of memory, of judgment, paralysis, or the mania that leads to suicide.

The eventual result is general paralysis, necrosis of the limb extremities, and termination.

He also gives an instance of congenital paralysis of the levator palpebrae muscles in a child whose vision was perfect and who was otherwise perfect.

He wills to move a palsied limb: the soul is unaffected by the paralysis, but the muscles refuse to obey his volition: the distinction between the person willing and the instrument to be wielded is unavoidable.

Virtual Paraplegia, Quadriplegic Bulletin Board, Spinal Cord Injury Information Network, Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Junior sipping chat-room messages or puffing them into the ether.

Greene is suffering from any disease other than an organic paralysis of both legs-- a paraplegia, in fact, of the entire lower part of the body.

The pharmacology institute specialized in developing toxins to induce paralysis or death.

I presume from results observed, a number of non-lethal restraint devices such as psychosomatic paralysis weapons.

While recompression could be possible within the first minute, the astronaut would not be able to help himselfa quick paralysis would be followed by brief convulsions before the body settled into its final paralysis.

Quite possibly, this was her old traumatic paralysis, reinduced by shock.

Club-feet, spinal curvature, and other deformities resulting from paralysis, have been successfully treated in our Institution.

In withered and deformed limbs, resulting from infantile paralysis, the manipulator furnishes the most agreeable, direct, and certain remedy.

In 1837, after two attacks of paralysis, shelter was found for him in the charitable asylum of Bon Sauveur, Caen, where he died on the 30th of March 1840.

My tools were the toothbrush, its reaming pick on the other end, a file, an adhesive neutralizer, a polishing gel, a shammy cloth, and creeping mental paralysis.