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[ UK /pəɹˈæləsˌɪs/ ]
[ US /pɝˈæɫəsəs, pɝˈæɫɪsɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. loss of the ability to move a body part

How To Use paralysis In A Sentence

  • Most intriguingly, among the described symptoms of fugu poisoning is progressive limb paralysis while maintaining consciousness.
  • Sometimes it was more like numbness or paralysis, or even problems with co-ordination.
  • In fact, the cause of sleep paralysis is "a marked dissociation between level of alertness and muscle atonia that often occurs in SOREM (sleep onset - REM) sleep episodes (1). Serendip's Exchange
  • Extreme symptoms are paralysis or loss of sight. The Sun
  • I too have suffered paralysis in a plethora of possibility: belly or Nova, herring or tongue, chub or sable, kreplach or kishke, kugel or blueberry blintz ... Par Delicatesse
  • Current thinking is that some patients have inherited a predisposition to develop thyrotoxic periodic paralysis under the right set of circumstances. NYT > Home Page
  • What prompted the government to cave in before was the total paralysis of the country. Times, Sunday Times
  • Objective To study the nursing intervention measures for upper limb movement function recovery of patients with brain damage-caused hemiparalysis.
  • This is the same bacterial nerve toxin that causes botulism, an illness which causes muscle weakness or paralysis.
  • The process of demyelination interrupts the electrical impulses that run through these nerve fibers, causing weakness and paralysis. The Autoimmune Epidemic
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