Crossword clues for paralysis
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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., the
loss of the power of voluntary motion, with or without that
of sensation, in any part of the body; palsy. See
Hemiplegia, and Paraplegia. Also used figuratively; as,
paralysis of the will. ``Utter paralysis of memory.''
--G.
Eliot.
Mischievous practices arising out of the paralysis of
the powers of ownership.
--Duke of
Argyll (1887).
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 (late 14c., see palsy). Old English equivalent was lyft adl (see left (adj.)) or crypelnes "crippleness."
Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) The complete loss of voluntary control of part of person's body, such as one or more limbs.
WordNet
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, transient or permanent. The word comes from the Greek παράλυσις, "disabling of the nerves", itself from παρά (para), "beside, by" and λύσις (lysis), "loosing" and that from λύω (luō), "to loose". A paralysis accompanied by involuntary tremors is usually called " palsy".
Paralysis is the second EP by Norwegian metal band Extol. It was released only in Sweden, Germany, and Finland in 2001 by Endtime Productions. Paralysis was the band's last record on that label as they were signed to Century Media afterwards. It was also the band's last album to feature their technical and melodic death metal style. "Shadow of Death" is a cover of the pioneering Christian technical thrash metal group Believer's song from the 1989 album Extraction from Mortality. The song indicated Extol's stylistic change that followed on the 2003 album Synergy. The songs on this EP were added as bonus tracks for Century Media's re-release of Undeceived.
Paralysis is the complete loss of muscle function for one or more muscle groups.
Paralysis may also refer to:
- Paralysis (album), a 2001 death metal album
- Paralysis (band), a gothic metal band
- Paralysis (EP), a 2001 progressive rock album
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.
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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.