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Definition of paralysis:

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

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Hours of unconsciousness were followed by a raging brain fever, and paralysis, insanity, and death strove together against him.

The evidence at hand to date indicates that acute anterior poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis, is transmitted by contact with infected persons.

The most common ailments were eye problems, aching teeth, festering ears, joint swelling and sudden paralysis of the bowels.

In that pitiable condition he mounted again and rode on, without any change of clothes, and so was seized with paralysis.

And it is probable, that those, who have expired from immoderate laughter, have died from this paralysis consequent to violent exertion.

By intellectual cowardice I mean all superstitions, premonitions, and other forms of mental paralysis or panic caused by what is vague.

The other common varieties are paralysis of the palate, of the pharynx, of the eye muscles, and of the respiratory muscles.

He was at one time troubled with rheumatism, and in his childhood suffered from an attack of diphtheria, followed by paralysis.

In the body it has relation to the nervous system, and its diseases are those of paralysis, lesion, and nervous derangement.

Associated with this apparent paralysis, the sensitiveness to touch had entirely ceased in the legs, as well as sensitiveness to pain.

Patients recovering from this disease, frequently have a numbness of the arms or legs, which sometimes amounts to a complete paralysis.

This disease often terminated in this way, in paralysis; it was one of the most frequent complications of the terrible malady.

Ergot may cause serious irritation of the digestive tract, or by acting upon the nervous system it may cause lethargy or paralysis.

Apoplexy and paralysis are prone to occur at nearly the same time of life under the transmission of like constitutions by parentage.

Pritchard eventually signed the certificate himself, stating the primary cause of death had been paralysis and the secondary cause apoplexy.

Afflicted with a creeping paralysis, he lingered long, ever cheerful, and interested in his friends, to whom he sent many messages.

A prickling sensation down one entire side of his body was followed by a partial numbness and paralysis that alarmed him.

The constant tendency of his mind towards antithesis and the balancing of opinions did not lead to paralysis in time of action.

Now the symptoms of paralysis and rheumatism are so distinctly at variance, that it is utterly impossible to fall under a mistake.

Then, I can but regard this condition, often, as one of paralysis, in which are affected the muscles of ejaculation and acceleration.

It is associated with complete or partial paralysis, a peculiar jerking tremor of the muscles, headache, and vertigo, and is usually fatal.

The retention of the urine in horses, because of spasm or paralysis of certain muscles, may be treated by passing the catheter.

Rudolph, desperately choked, continued leaping upward against an insufferable power of gravity, or straining to run against the force of paralysis.

Any wild tale got credence, adding its bit to the general paralysis, and producing a vociferous demand that "something be done."

There was left facial paralysis, weakness and numbness of both upper extremities, especially of the left, and some difficulty in swallowing.

It was the accidental shifting of position which served to disclose that the existing system was smitten with a mortal paralysis.

Again, although it does not produce paralysis it is not the tonic spasm, but rather the slow creeping death from extremities.

Without doubt, however, carbonic oxide has also an immediate effect upon the central nervous system (first excitation, followed quickly by paralysis).

These are the men who break down at sixty, if not earlier, becoming subject to paralysis, indigestion, and other similar evils.

By this time the paralysis is complete, and the extension of the meningitis, which has become established, is a consummation soon reached.

Truly, to confess ennui, or make complaint of the dullness of life, is to confess to a sort of creeping paralysis of the mind.

Apart from the interference of the band and the sandwiches with vehicular traffic, there was the paralysis of the pedestrians.

She exhibited paralysis extending to the knees, slight temperature, no pain, sensory nerves normal, motor nerves completely paralyzed, reflexes absent.

He was seized with paralysis in 1837, but recovered to a great extent; a second attack in 1844 however completely prostrated him.

If taken habitually, these agents invariably tend to create heart disease and paralysis, and ultimately develop the patient into a dope fiend.

Wishing to get his candid opinion on the subject, I remarked that probably it was not real paralysis, but only a numbness.

Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, which are advertised to cure paralysis and are a compound of green vitriol, starch and sugar.

Her nerves were affected, resulting in paralysis of the muscles of the heart and lungs and giving us some symptoms of suffocation.

If its juice be expelled by heat and collected, it is excellent as an application in paralysis, and it also cleanses large foul ulcers.

He is attacked on the right side with partial paralysis, and is subject to convulsive movements: the supreme power will cure him.

For a full minute the company stared dumbly at the indistinct little window, paralysis attacking every sense but that of sight.

The paralysis may be spastic in lesions of the cortex or internal capsule; if it is flaccid the lesion is almost certainly cortical.

The extent of the motor and sensory paralysis varies with the level of the lesion and with the particular nerves injured.

He lumbered majestically, his hairy breast exposed, but was a feeble old man, older than his years; paralysis had maimed him.

When at last we tried to raise him, we found that a paralysis of the heart had compassionately united him to his darling.

Negligence or not, the inverted method has the same final result as the direct method: the paralysis of all the segments.

Sufferers from infantile paralysis can be taught to do many things with their weakened muscles that seem to be quite impossible to them.

A man seized with sudden paralysis may be conscious of his power to move a limb, only to discover by experience his impotence.

The paralysis disappeared immediately after the extraction of the bullet; but tetanus came on four days afterward, and proved speedily fatal.

The regent, now much humbled by years of strife and paralysis - bowed to popular opinion so eloquently and convincingly expressed.

So, like a blight, the paralysis of the production of food began all at once and actual starvation stared at the town populations.

A reaction of discouragement followed, and she was suddenly stricken down by paralysis, which threatened at once to terminate her noble life.

This is especially seen in acute mania, in the early stages of general paralysis and senile dementia, also temporarily or permanently in other psychoses.

He writhed miserably at the chafing of his wrists; his strange paralysis had departed, but he was quite helpless to assist Pat.

And may not the moral paralysis which impeded effective tactics in the army be fairly adduced in mitigation of their unauthorized furloughs?

In cases of paralysis the Faculty is agreed upon the fact that local symptoms disappear when the will-power returns to the brain.

It was a strange stupor which affected him, not like paralysis, but arising rather from exhaustion, or some affection of the brain.

Now that the terrible records of dyspepsia and paralysis are disproving this, we may hope for a reaction in favor of bodily exercises.

Such small critics do what they can to promote unbelief and universal spiritual paralysis; but happily they cannot always completely succeed.

Chill and repugnance shook my body, while that part of me which was not body battled against nightmare paralysis of horror.

When paralysis is caused by a lesion of a nerve, the paralysis is confined to the particular part supplied by the affected nerve.

Then to his ears came, on the morning breeze, that same call to arms that had stiffened Blossom into a paralysis of fear.

He was smitten with paralysis, his right side was attacked, his hand refused all service, and even his mind was affected.

Babinski, and recalled certain rare forms of associated ocular palsies occurring with paralysis of convergence, a combination manifest in the subject in question.

Later on when the disease has progressed, and a perfect paralysis has ensued, the incontinence of the urine is constant even in daytime.

He did not know that he was suffering a form of mike fright that afflicts the young radio performer with an emotional paralysis.

Gunther received the first telegraphic news of his friend, Count Eberhard, having lost the power of speech through a stroke of paralysis.

Deaths from syphilis are all the time being hidden under the general terms "Bright's disease," or "heart disease," or "paralysis," or "apoplexy."

This phase of her illness suggested to me the idea of employing magnetism, and I was about to do so when the paralysis began.

It may be objected perhaps that this statement of the paralysis spiritual and mental induced by Infallibility applies also to the Bible.

In milder cases effusion may take place in the arachnoid spaces and ventricles of the brain, followed by paralysis and other complications.

Three of the most usual diseases to which the habitual dram drinker is subject are liver disease, fatty degeneration of the heart, and paralysis.

Hardly had Ibsen become the object of universal discussion than he found himself assailed, as never before, by the paralysis of poverty.

This time she experienced a simple paralysis, accompanied by a stoppage of breath, but with a brain and vision that remained perfectly clear.

The veterinary surgeon who attended her said she was suffering from sudden paralysis of the spine, and that she was incurable.

Since Jimmie's infantile paralysis, three years before, he had been able to walk very little, and school had seemed out of the question.

Paralysis of the lower extremities, coming on without apparent cause, is not infrequently the result of solitary indulgence, even in very small children.

This dependence of action upon the thought which the mind has at the time is conclusively shown in certain patients having partial paralysis.

The results professed were very extravagant, among the cases being cancer, paralysis, advanced consumption, chronic rheumatism, and lameness of different kinds.

After he had been stricken by paralysis through overwork at the age of fifty-six, she became hands, eyes, mind, and everything to him.

Paralysis of the bladder, which renders the organ incapable of emptying itself, thus retaining some fermenting urine, is another cause of bladder inflammation.

Large doses produce vertigo, nausea and paralysis; but in smaller quantities, administered by skillful hands, it has a sedative action on the nerves.

His right arm was almost immediately paralyzed; after a few minutes the paralysis involved the right leg, and he lost consciousness.

Gout, vertigo, rheumatism, apoplexy, paralysis and piles are a few of the common physical ailments to be found among men of this age.

This is not to be confounded with the desire for buying, which possesses those who are in the first stage of general paralysis.

It is related of him that some ten years before his death he became afflicted with paralysis, which completely crippled his right arm.

Paralysis is a weakness or cessation of the muscular contraction by diminution of loss of the conducting power or stimulation of the motor nerves.

A pulmonary paralysis had set him free, after an illness of six weeks, finally liberating the great soul from its earthly tenement.

It was as if fear had churned her blood too thick to flow, and through her paralysis tore the spasm of a half-articulate shriek.

He was seized with a sort of momentary paralysis, continuing to stare at the brooch as though he had lost the power of volition.

Its presence is at all times more or less injurious to the bearer, being a frequent cause of sickness, colic, convulsive fits, and paralysis.

The continuing credit paralysis has operated to accentuate the deflation and liquidation of commodities, real estate, and securities below any reasonable basis of values.

He stood before her smiling, that rather inept smile, which indicates the complete paralysis of every faculty, except the faculty of admiration.

Sometimes a paralysis of this portion of the brain results from such an entire exhaustion of the nervous fountain and of the overworked nerves.

Is paralysis intended, resulting from the menstruation and menstrual discharges, the poisonous humor of which will wither up crops, kill bees, etc.

Sloughing may take place; the entire sheath or patches upon the body may slough off and there may be paralysis of the penis.

The mind struggles to establish a connection, a sequence of cause and effect; and, being unable to do so, suffers a species of temporary paralysis.

He is slow and sluggish in his movements, or there may be partial paralysis of one limb, one side of the face, neck, or body.

If an area of the cortex is destroyed by the lesion, paralysis is produced of the corresponding muscles on the opposite side of the body.

It is possible to conceive one under which he would be hampered to the point of paralysis by irritating interference from a bureaucracy at headquarters.