Paralytic

Word PARALYTIC
Character 9
Hyphenation par a lyt ic
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Paralytic"

What do we mean by paralytic?

Of or relating to paralysis. adjective

Characteristic of or resembling paralysis. adjective

Affected with paralysis; paralyzed. adjective

A person affected with paralysis. noun

Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of paralysis: as, paralytic affection.

Affected with paralysis or palsy; palsied; so constituted as to be subject to paralysis.

One who is affected with paralysis or palsy. noun

A person affected with paralysis. noun

Of or pertaining to paralysis; resembling paralysis. adjective

Affected with paralysis, or palsy. adjective

Inclined or tending to paralysis. adjective

The fluid, generally thin and watery, secreted from a gland after section or paralysis of its nerves, as the paralytic saliva. adjective

Someone suffering from paralysis. noun

Affected by paralysis, paralysed. adjective

Pertaining to paralysis. adjective

Very drunk. adjective

Relating to or of the nature of paralysis adjective

A person suffering from paralysis noun

Affected with paralysis adjective

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The word "paralytic" in example sentences

There are various types which have been called the paralytic, the choreic, and the saltatory. ❋ Unknown (1896)

_ Tremor of old age consists of a perpetual trembling of the hands, or of the head, or of other muscles, when they are exerted; and is erroneously called paralytic; and seems owing to the small quantity of animal power residing in the muscular fibres. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

The resulting sickness, known as paralytic shellfish poisoning, can cause serious illness or death in humans who consume shellfish with toxic levels of red tide. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, Adam suffered from a rare form of the disorder called paralytic strabismus, in which the eye's misalignment results from paralysis of the muscles on one side of the eye. ❋ Unknown (2008)

However, some strains of Alexandrium tamarense produce very potent neurotoxins known as paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Peaslee had been asked to care for another inmate named John Doton, who was "paralytic" and had maggot-infested bedsores. ❋ Arthur Delaney (2010)

The "paralytic," of course, meaning the too much gin sometimes. ❋ Unknown (1990)

It is true that even the great Dr. Johnson defined the word pastern as 'the knee of an horse,' an anatomical inexactitude which would produce on an ostler the same kind of paralytic shock that a sailor might experience on finding in the same famous work leeward and windward described in identical terms as 'toward the wind.' ❋ Unknown (1969)

“In short, we soon separated, and I went, by the advice of a physician, to drink the Bath waters; for my violent affliction, added to a sedentary life, had thrown me into a kind of paralytic disorder, for which those waters are accounted an almost certain cure. ❋ Unknown (1917)

a physician, to drink the Bath waters; for my violent affliction, added to a sedentary life, had thrown me into a kind of paralytic disorder, for which those waters are accounted an almost certain cure. ❋ Unknown (2004)

a disease, called in this country _the crippawn_ -- a kind of paralytic affection of the limbs which generally ends fatally -- attacked some black cattle belonging to the master of the house; some died others became infected, and the customary cure produced by changing them to drier pasture failed. ❋ Various (N/A)

"In short, we soon separated, and I went, by the advice of a physician, to drink the Bath waters; for my violent affliction, added to a sedentary life, had thrown me into a kind of paralytic disorder, for which those waters are accounted an almost _certain_ cure. ❋ Henry Fielding (1730)

We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. ❋ Steven Levy (2011)

Within a half-decade of its introduction, cases of paralytic polio in the United States decreased by almost 90 percent. ❋ Seth Mnookin (2011)

A 2006 study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health estimated that the polio vaccine alone has saved the United States more than $180 billion, a bottom-line quantification of the more than one million cases of paralytic polio and 160,000 deaths it has prevented. ❋ Seth Mnookin (2011)

To that end, the law established a specially formulated table of injuries ranging from chronic arthritis and persistent bleeding to anaphylactic shock and paralytic polio. ❋ Seth Mnookin (2011)

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