Word Finder - paralysis

definition

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

definition

A state of being unable to act.

example

The government has been in a paralysis since it lost its majority in the parliament.

He died of paralysis on the 30th of May 1833.

And near the end of 1937, Roosevelt created the National Foundation for Infant Paralysis to join in the fight.

When open war broke out between Edinburgh Castle, held by Mary's friends, and the town, held for her son, both parties agreed that the reformer, who had already had a stroke of paralysis, should remove to St Andrews.

There he had an attack of paralysis, from which he died on the 29th of March 1866.

In progressive lead palsy, beri-beri, and the paralysis following acute alcoholism, fairly large doses are useful.

The period from 675 to 585 must therefore be considered as one of great disturbance and probably of complete paralysis in Phrygia.

The session 1900-1901 was remarkable for the further disintegration of the Conservative party still in office (the Sehested cabinet superseded the Horring cabinet on the 27th of April 1900) and the almost total paralysis of parliament, caused by the interminable debates on the question of taxation reform.

In 1822 he was struck with paralysis, but recovered a fair degree of health, sufficient to enable him to resume his studies.

Paul, however, refused to accept his resignation and would have sent him abroad for the benefit of his health, had not a sudden stroke of paralysis prevented Bezborodko from taking advantage of his master's kindness.

Thus there may be hyperaesthesia, anaesthesia, paralysis, or alterations of nutrition, such as wasting of muscles, whitening of the hair, &c.

Maya survives surgery to her spinal cord and paralysis is prevented.

On the 29th of May he suffered a stroke of paralysis, which caused his death eight days later (June 6).

He was attacked with quinsy, which rapidly brought about paralysis of the tongue, and he died on the 13th of September 1592, in circumstances which, as Pasquier reports them, completely disprove any intention of displaying antiChristian or anti-Catholic leanings.

The War Period, 1914-8.-The outbreak of war meant the almost complete paralysis of industry in Austria.

While at Frankfurt, on his way to examine the Neanderthal skull at Bonn, he was struck with paralysis, and died at Gottingen a few months later on the 13th of May 1864.

It was not till April 1827, when the premiership, vacant through the paralysis of Lord Liverpool, fell to Canning, the chief advocate of Roman Catholic emancipation, that Lord Eldon, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, finally resigned the chancellorship. When, after the two short administrations of Canning and Goderich, it fell to the duke of Wellington to construct a cabinet, Lord Eldon expected to be included, if not as chancellor, at least in some important office, but he was overlooked, at which he was much chagrined.

Leonardo, it seems, was suffering from some form of slight paralysis which impaired his power of hand.

In the case of curare these are masked almost at once by paralysis of the terminations of the motor nerves.

Amongst these, the most important is fever with increased protein metabolism, attended with disturbances of the circulatory and respiratory systems. Nervous symptoms, somnolence, coma, spasms, convulsions and paralysis are of common occurrence.

Such an injury can result in permanent paralysis.

In all cases there is a longer or shorter period of excitement, followed by intoxication or narcosis, and with large doses this passes into paralysis and death from depression of the respiratory centre or of the heart.

Douglas Coupland called the bewilderment induced by there being too many choices ' option paralysis ' (' Generation X ', 1991 ).

The muscle paralysis can be continued with intermittent intravenous boluses, using about 25% of the initial dose.

If not--kindly relax that crablike clutch on my elbow before partial paralysis ensues.

Then a creeping paralysis seemed to grip the company.

Myelitis and ascending flaccid paralysis due to congenital toxoplasmosis.

Your body does not move however as your brain induces temporary paralysis to stop you getting up and walking about.

How, then, can we overcome this paralysis?

Up to 1 in 1000 infected children and 1 in 75 infected adults may suffer some paralysis.

People with SCI whose spinal reflexes are not functioning are said to have flaccid paralysis.

By 1952 the number of cases of infantile paralysis was three times higher than the figure for 1940.

Sparing of the forehead would suggest a central facial paralysis rather than Bell's palsy.

Surgeon John Walmsley, assisted by nurse Abby Hodges perform a tie-back on this patient with laryngeal paralysis.

He lives with his wife who is also disabled with spastic paralysis and is unable to walk.

I also felt myself going into the sleep paralysis state - which I don't like.. .

Termination of the experiment, to minimize any suffering, will begin when animals show partial hind limb paralysis.

These antibodies may be the cause of the eye muscle paralysis.

Symptoms of nerve root pressure paralysis of single muscles, possibly with pain radiating to the arms or legs.

The scraped pulp was applied as a stimulating plaster, and in gout, rheumatism and paralysis has been found serviceable in many instances.

The salivary secretions of some tick species may cause toxicosis and paralysis.

Some areas appear clinically unaffected while, in paralytic polio cases, other regions show flaccid paralysis.

Injuries can range from minor whiplash to paralysis, which can have a dramatic impact on the injured person's life.

Copernicus was seized with apoplexy and paralysis towards the close of 1542, and died on the 24th of May 1543, happily unconscious that the fine Epistle, in which he had dedicated his life's work to Paul III., was marred of its effect by an anonymous preface, slipt in by Andreas Osiander (1498-1552), with a view to disarming prejudice by insisting upon the purely hypothetical character of the reasonings it introduced.

The appropriate drug is therefore atropine, which stimulates the respiration and prevents the paralysis of the heart.

When these individuals are given the muscle relaxant suxamethonium, prolonged paralysis occurs and recovery from the drug takes longer.

Injuries can range from minor whiplash to paralysis, which can have a dramatic impact on the injured person 's life.

Shopping for plasma screen televisions can bring on an onset of analysis paralysis.

Tara often has Skeletal Support or Paralysis Plus and Pain Relief in her water bowl to help an old knee injury.

Orijen initiated a voluntary recall of their cat food because cats were becoming ill, experiencing paralysis and dying.

Thiaminase can lead to paralysis and death so if you are going to feed your cat a raw fish meal, make sure that you feed a variety of other foods throughout the week.