paralysis
IPA: pɝˈæɫʌsʌs
noun
- (pathology) The complete loss of voluntary control of part of a person's body, such as one or more limbs.
- A state of being unable to act.
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Examples of "paralysis" in Sentences
- The injury resulted in paralysis.
- The incidence of tick paralysis is unknown.
- I also understand the paralysis of indecision.
- This has the effect of inducing paralysis and death.
- But this kind of paralysis is a whole new phenomenon.
- Silence and paralysis in the act of genocide is wrong.
- Treatment is directed at the pathology causing the paralysis.
- Many cases of poliomyelitis result in only temporary paralysis.
- The condition may lead to extensive paralysis of the back legs.
- Flaccid paralysis and slowing of breathing eventually cause death.
- The disease is chronic and progressive, and resulting in paralysis.
- Vocal cord paralysis is the second most common congenital defect of the larynx (voice box).
- * The loss of the capacity for motion is referred to as paralysis from a Greek word meaning "to loosen."
- I mean, the paralysis is the fact that they don't have a government, therefore no legislation is going forward in the parliament.
- _ -- In complete unilateral _facial paralysis_ (Bell's paralysis) the affected side of the face is expressionless and devoid of voluntary or emotional movement.
- The next day, G. W. Smith had made fumbling and overcautious efforts to continue the battle and, on June 2, had suffered an illness which he described as paralysis.
- The term paralysis has generally been used to express the loss of voluntary motion, as in the hemiplagia, but may with equal propriety be applied to express the disobediency of the muscular fibres to the other kinds of stimulus; as to those of irritation or sensation.