Definition of Paralyses

1. Noun. (plural of paralysis) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of paralyse) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Paralyses

1. paralysis [n] - See also: paralysis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paralyses

paralogs
paralogue
paralogues
paralogy
paralstonite
paraluteal cell
paralutein cell
paralysable
paralysant
paralysants
paralysation
paralyse
paralysed
paralyser
paralysers
paralyses (current term)
paralysing
paralysingly
paralysis
paralysis agitans
paralyssa
paralytic
paralytic abasia
paralytic dementia
paralytic ectropion
paralytic ileus
paralytic mydriasis
paralytic myoglobinuria
paralytic rabies
paralytic scoliosis

Literary usage of Paralyses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"paralyses Classified According to the Tonus of the Paralyzed Muscles (Flaccid and Spastic paralyses) When the tonicity of the muscles paralyzed is less than ..."

2. The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood: For the Use of Students and by Luther Emmett Holt (1897)
"BIRTH paralyses. BIRTH paralyses are chiefly due either to pressure upon ... Cerebral paralyses are in almost every instance due to meningeal haemorrhage. ..."

3. The Diseases of infancy and childhood: For the Use of Students and by Luther Emmett Holt (1917)
"CHAPTER VI BIRTH paralyses BIRTH paralyses arc chiefly due either to pressure upon the ... Cerebral paralyses are in almost every instance due to meningea! ..."

4. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1901)
"In general, we may divide the paralyses into two groups, according' to the nature of their cause : into paralyses from causes that can be discovered ..."

5. The Psychoneuroses and Their Treatment by Psychotherapy by E. Gauckler (1915)
"Contractures and paralyses.—A contracture is a persistent tonic and involuntary ... Functional paralyses and contractures—that is to say, those that have no ..."

6. The Major Symptoms of Hysteria: Fifteen Lectures Given in the Medical School by Pierre Janet (1907)
"... LECTURE VII paralyses — DIAGNOSIS The clinical study of hysteric paralyses — The beginning of these paralyses—Traumatic neuroses—The most frequent types ..."

7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1901)
"There exist root paralyses, both intra and extra spinal: paralyses of the first ... Only two great clinical types exist: The root paralyses and the terminal ..."

8. Handbook of Electro-therapeutics by Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (1883)
"paralyses of the Neck and Trunk : Pathogenesis ; Cases ; Methods of Treatment—7. paralyses of the Upper Limbs : Pathogenesis ; Symptomatology ..."

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