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Definition of paralysis:

  • (noun) loss of the ability to move a body part

Sentence Examples:

Unevenly distributed paralysis exists in both lower extremities.

Blindness, paralysis, and death in convulsions frequently follow.

Its stoppage would mean financial and industrial paralysis.

Paralysis of the alimentary canal interferes with digestion.

The city was smitten with an awful paralysis.

Josiah felt the numbness of paralysis creeping over him.

There may be convulsions, and paralysis of some muscles.

No puerile fear, no fatalistic paralysis restrained his understanding.

He was given the diagnosis: malarial anterior spinal paralysis.

At this time he was stricken with infantile paralysis.

He employed the colloquial name for a stroke of paralysis.

It is infantile paralysis, a disease common with delicate children.

It causes respiratory paralysis and the animal dies in convulsions.

Unfortunately, my paralysis was not my only ugliness.

James Osborne, the youthful cashier, feigned complete paralysis.

The tongue protruded pitifully, helpless in its momentary paralysis.

He considered it as a prelude to epilepsy, mania, or paralysis.

In paralysis the muscles droop and lose their tone.

Gout, paralysis, and neuralgia, have been frequent in the family.

The ocular paralysis threaten to be much slower in departing.

They are also under suspicion as carriers of infantile paralysis.

It contains nerve stimulants, just what is required in paralysis.

When separated from the body, by paralysis or amputation?

What the consumptive person needs is stimulus, not paralysis.

They were suffering from rickets, arrested development, paralysis, malnutrition.

This colt was affected with facial paralysis when born.

He is blind and paralysis is crippling his hinder parts.

You are afflicted with paralysis of will and mental stagnation.

I then clearly saw her poor face distorted by paralysis.

The Hypothesis of Brain Exaltation with Paralysis of the Senses.

He also consulted a specialist, who pronounced the paralysis rheumatic.

A twelvemonth later, Grandfather Arden had a stroke of paralysis.

This is the sudden paralysis of the warrior's savage harpoons.

In spastic spinal paralysis (lateral spinal sclerosis) it is exaggerated.

The acquired form is usually the result of infantile paralysis.

Those views lead only to pessimism and paralysis of effort.'

It symbolized the senseless paralysis of a whole nation's activities.

In short, this paralysis of biceps was functional in nature.

Still later he got a flaccid paralysis of the legs.

Such as occasion stupor, drowsiness, paralysis, or apoplexy, and convulsions.

When the paralysis is complete, total blindness of course ensues.

"She didn't even stop," he muttered, in a paralysis of surprise.

It is also used for tropical fevers, for gout and paralysis.

Suppose one of these victims of infantile paralysis were your child?

This will prevent the cardiac paralysis whenever it is preventable.

The children of tobacco-using parents frequently die with infantile paralysis.

Paralysis and lunacy tread hard on the footsteps of excess.

After she left, the parson had a stroke of paralysis.

Then, a numbness in the extremities, followed by rapid paralysis.

Dyspepsia and faintness to begin with and paralysis to follow.

Constipation and indigestion also produce paralysis of the hind quarters.

She lay motionless, like one stunned and under partial paralysis.

The recently publicized so-called "paralysis gun" was one of them.

Scurvy is frequently mistaken for either rheumatism or paralysis in babies.

The diastole of paralysis is the most frequent form of death.

Better plunder than paralysis, better fire and sword than futility.

First there was a high fever, then convulsions, then paralysis.

Saturn indicates death by chronic diseases, rheumatism, ague and paralysis.

The paralysis subsides after the removal of the offending body.

To me your wealth would be paralysis, a mockery and a specter.

Graham's instinct of self-preservation overcame the paralysis of his incredulous astonishment.

At this terrible display of audacity, a paralysis had overtaken them.

He suffered temporarily much disfigurement from paralysis of the facial nerve.

To an ignorant and presumptuous confidence paralysis and fear had succeeded.

The pupils were dilated as though from paralysis of the eyes.

Bianca struggled but feebly; terror held her in a partial paralysis.

And that constricting paralysis and heat were gone from Sam's body.

It has been recommended for external application in rheumatism and paralysis.

Anybody walking into one of those whiffs was liable to get paralysis.

A sense of discovery, as of a moral paralysis, pervaded the atmosphere.

In a case of paralysis the stricken parts were whipped with nettles.

He would fight free of suspense, and suffer no paralysis of indecision.

After a seizure and a paralysis there may be a long remission.

In cases of rheumatic paralysis a similar state of things is observed.

Now this was paralysis; for the nightgown is a recent institution.

That is a species of paralysis, growing out of a sense of insecurity.

Radium acts on the nerve centers, and will ultimately produce paralysis.

The nettle is also valuable as an external stimulant in cases of paralysis.

It terrified her beyond description, but it brought no paralysis of fear.

In some cases the bladder and rectum are involved in the paralysis.

The bite of the rattlesnake would not produce a more sudden paralysis.

The woman may die in a convulsion from apoplexy or heart paralysis.

Infantile paralysis struck me when I was less than a year old.

Many succumb every season to a strange and deadly form of paralysis.

Paralysis ensues, and in from two to eighteen months the animal dies.

He felt himself fixed, immobile, in a strange paralysis of the faculties.

Acute irritation of the epidermis, quickly followed by paralysis of the limbs.

A narcotic is a substance which, taken in the requisite dose, causes paralysis.

Had there been numbness, instead, the surgeons would have looked for paralysis.

It hinders clear reasoning, and in many cases brings on incipient paralysis.

Deformities of the Knee resulting from Anterior Poliomyelitis and from Spastic Paralysis.

The rest of us degenerate in a painless paralysis we think of as pleasure.

She'll have a species of paralysis; but that'll work off under treatment.

Paralysis and horrible vertigo and presentiments of sudden collapse as I walk.

Paralysis of will, where do we not find this cripple sitting nowadays!

Symptoms of general paralysis set in, at first mistaken for neurotic disturbances.

Carmichael lay with his eyes closed in a kind of lethargy or paralysis.

"Well, it was an attack of apoplexy, paralysis, or something of that kind."

She panted, in a sort of paralysis of fright and triumph of prophecy.

The next group of affections secondary to neuralgia are the paralysis of muscles.