PARALYSIS
\pəɹˈaləsˌɪs], \pəɹˈaləsˌɪs], \p_ə_ɹ_ˈa_l_ə_s_ˌɪ_s]\
Definitions of PARALYSIS
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- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A general term most often used to describe severe or complete loss of muscle strength due to motor system disease from the level of the cerebral cortex to the muscle fiber. This term may also occasionally refer to a loss of sensory function. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p45)
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By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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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.
By Robley Dunglison
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See Brown-Sequard's disease.
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Loss of power of voluntary motion or of sensation in a part from lesion of nerve-substance.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
