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UK
/pəɹˈæləsˌɪs/
]
[ US /pɝˈæɫəsəs, pɝˈæɫɪsɪs/ ]
[ US /pɝˈæɫəsəs, pɝˈæɫɪsɪs/ ]
NOUN
- 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