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paralysis

[pə ral′ə sis]

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Paralysis is a state of being unable to act or react, or the loss of motion or feeling in certain parts of your body.
1. When you are given shocking news about the death of your husband and you are unable to move or react, this is an example of paralysis.
2. When you sever your spinal cord and you can no longer move your legs or feel things below your waist, this is an example of paralysis.

paralysis

noun

pl. paralyses

partial or complete loss, or temporary interruption, of a function, esp. of voluntary motion or of sensation in some part or all of the body
any condition of helpless inactivity or of inability to act

Origin of paralysis

Classical Latin ; from Classical Greek paralysis ; from paralyein, to loosen, dissolve, or weaken at the side: see para- and amp; lysis

paralysis

noun

pl. pa·ral·y·ses

a. Loss or impairment of the ability to move a body part, usually as a result of damage to its nerve supply.
b. Loss of sensation over a region of the body.
Inability to move or function; total stoppage or severe impairment of activity: fear that led to national paralysis.

Origin of paralysis

Latin, from Greek paralusis, from paralūein, to disable, loosen : para-, on one side; see para–¹ + lūein, to release; see leu- in Indo-European roots.

paralysis

Noun

(plural paralyses)

(pathology) The complete loss of voluntary control of part of person's body, such as one or more limbs.

Origin

From Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek Ï€Î±ÏÎ¬Î»Ï…ÏƒÎ¹Ï‚ (paralusis, â€œpalsyâ€), from Ï€Î±ÏÎ±Î»ÏÎµÎ¹Î½ (paraluein, â€œto disable on one sideâ€), from Ï€Î±ÏÎ¬ (para, â€œbesideâ€) + Î»ÏÎµÎ¹Î½ (luein, â€œloosenâ€).

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And near the end of 1937, Roosevelt created the National Foundation for Infant Paralysis to join in the fight.
With a grant from the National Foundation for Infant Paralysis, he went to work on a polio vaccine.
In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.
For three weeks the old prince lay stricken by paralysis in the new house Prince Andrew had built at Bogucharovo, ever in the same state, getting neither better nor worse.
Facial paralysis as the initial presentation of an internal carotid artery aneurysm.

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