paralysis
paralysis
Definition
pa·raly·sis (pə ral′ə sis)
noun pl. -·ses′-sēz′
- 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
Etymology: L < Gr paralysis < paralyein, to loosen, dissolve, or weaken at the side: see para- & lysis
paralysis
Synonyms
paralysis
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- limb: Polio mainly affects children younger than 3, causing a lifelong paralysis of the limbs.
- muscle: Typical symptoms result from the paralysis of the muscles served by the nerve.
- leg: There are also recent reports of paralysis of the legs.
Converse of object
- creep: Then a creeping paralysis seemed to grip the company.
- ascend: Myelitis and ascending flaccid paralysis due to congenital toxoplasmosis.
- induce: Your body does not move however as your brain induces temporary paralysis to stop you getting up and walking about.
- cause: Brake invites ABD members to talk to people confined to wheel chairs through paralysis caused by speeding drivers.
- overcome: How, then, can we overcome this paralysis?
- suffer: Up to 1 in 1000 infected children and 1 in 75 infected adults may suffer some paralysis.
Preposition: in
- muscle: The prognosis of a completely paralyzed muscle is related to the level of paralysis in muscles supplied by the same spinal segments.
Adjective modifier
- flaccid: People with SCI whose spinal reflexes are not functioning are said to have flaccid paralysis.
- infantile: By 1952 the number of cases of infantile paralysis was three times higher than the figure for 1940.
- facial: Sparing of the forehead would suggest a central facial paralysis rather than Bell's palsy.
- laryngeal: Surgeon John Walmsley, assisted by nurse Abby Hodges perform a tie-back on this patient with laryngeal paralysis.
- spastic: He lives with his wife who is also disabled with spastic paralysis and is unable to walk.
- neuromuscular: Guillain-Barré syndrome Investigating the molecular mechanisms causing nerve damage in Guillain-Barré Syndrome ( which causes acute neuromuscular paralysis ).
Noun used with modifier
- sleep: I also felt myself going into the sleep paralysis state - which I don't like.. .
- limb: Termination of the experiment, to minimize any suffering, will begin when animals show partial hind limb paralysis.
- muscle: These antibodies may be the cause of the eye muscle paralysis.
- nerve: Symptoms of nerve root pressure Paralysis of single muscles, possibly with pain radiating to the arms or legs.
paralysis Quotes
Give us back our suffering, we cry to Heaven in our heartsösuffering rather than indifferentism; for out of nothing comes nothing Better have pain than paralysis! 616
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