What does the word paralysis mean?
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1. Akinesia, acinesia, palsy, loss of power of voluntary movement in a muscle through injury or disease of its nerve supply. 2. Anesthesia, loss of sensation in a part. 3. Loss of any function, as of secretion or of mental action.
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Abolition or great diminution of the voluntary motions, Myoparalysis, and sometimes of sensation, in one or more parts of the body. Palsy is said to be local, when it affects only a few muscles. When it extends to half the body, vertically or horizontally, it is called Hemiplegia or Paraplegia. It is commonly symptomatic of disease of the brain or of the nerves themselves, and is a frequent accompaniment, precursor, or successor of apoplexy, -Phrenoparalysis. The immediate cause is, generally, pressure, either by blood effused, or by serum, or by vascular turgescence. At its onset, therefore, bloodletting may be advisable; but, afterwards, the disease becomes one of nervous debility, and requires stimulants to the paralyzed parts, or to the mucous membranes, - frictions, sinapisms, blisters, the moxa, baths, electricity, galvanism, purgatives, and the nux vomica, which last has the property of exciting movements where the will has no longer power. The disease generally admits only of palliation, and is extremely apt to recur.
Usage examples for paralysis
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But just at this juncture the thatch of palm leaves on the roofs of some of the buildings inside the fortifications took fire, a conflagration followed, which caused the explosion of one of the magazines, and in the paralysis of terror that followed, the pirates forced their way into the fortifications, and the castle was won. – Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard I. Pyle
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A moment's paralysis of astonishment, and the involuntary rush forward was arrested by Muckluck, who fastened herself on to the rescuer's parki- tail and refused to be detached. – The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
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The typical course of study now offered in literature carries on its process of paralysis in various ways: First. – The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee
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