Palsy

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  • noun. Complete or partial muscle paralysis, often accompanied by loss of sensation and uncontrollable body movements or tremors.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A weakening or debilitating influence.
  • noun. An enfeebled condition or debilitated state thought to result from such an influence.
  • noun. A fit of strong emotion marked by the inability to act.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To paralyze.
  • transitive verb. To deprive of strength.
  • transitive verb. To make helpless, as with fear.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A weakening, suspension, or abolition of muscular power or sensation; paralysis. See paralysis.
  • Palsied.
  • To paralyze; affect with palsy or as with palsy; deprive of action or energy.
  • To suffer from palsy; be affected with palsy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.
  • noun. Paralysis, complete or partial. See paralysis.
  • noun. paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it.
  • noun. See Writer's cramp, under Writer.
  • noun. paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait; now called parkinsonism, or Parkinson's disease.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Chummy, friendly.
  • noun. Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
  • verb. To paralyse, either completely or partially.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor
  • noun. loss of the ability to move a body part
  • verb. affect with palsy
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    "Living with cerebral palsy is a continuous process of exploration."
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