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Definition of Paralytic

1. Adjective. Relating to or of the nature of paralysis. "Paralytic symptoms"

2. Noun. A person suffering from paralysis.

3. Adjective. Affected with paralysis.

Definition of Paralytic

1. a. Of or pertaining to paralysis; resembling paralysis.

2. n. A person affected with paralysis.

Definition of Paralytic

1. Noun. Someone suffering from paralysis. ¹

2. Adjective. Affected by paralysis, paralysed. ¹

3. Adjective. Pertaining to paralysis. ¹

4. Adjective. (UK Australia Irish) Very drunk. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Paralytic

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Medical Definition of Paralytic

1. A person affected with paralysis. 1. Of or pertaining to paralysis; resembling paralysis. 2. Affected with paralysis, or palsy. "The cold, shaking, paralytic hand." (Prior) 3. Inclined or tending to paralysis. Paralytic secretion, the fluid, generally thin and watery, secreted from a gland after section or paralysis of its nerves, as the pralytic saliva. Origin: L. Paralyticus, Gr., cf. F. Paralytique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paralytic

paralutein cell paralysable paralysant paralysants paralysation paralyse paralysed paralyser paralysers paralyses

paralysing paralysingly paralysis paralysis agitans paralyssa paralytic (current term) paralytic abasia paralytic dementia paralytic ectropion paralytic ileus

paralytic mydriasis paralytic myoglobinuria paralytic rabies paralytic scoliosis paralytic shellfish poisoning toxin carbamoylase paralytic strabismus paralytical paralytically paralytick paralytics

Literary usage of Paralytic

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

1. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1912)
"Budapest, 1908 (Hungarian). paralytic Hemoglobinemia of Cattle. There are a few publications from which it appears that a disease, resembling the paralytic ..."

2. 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 (1905)
"... calls attention to the frequency with which hereditary syphilis, or syphilis acquired in youth, is the cause of an early form of paralytic dementia. ..."

3. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1854)
"paralytic Ptosis. paralytic ptosis, without any participation of the muscles of the eyeball, is rare. We find that, along with the depression of the upper ..."

4. Discourses on Several Subjects by Samuel Seabury (1815)
"DISCOURSE V. OBSERVATIONS ON THE CURE OF THE paralytic MAN WHO WAS BROUGHT TO CHRIST. MATT. ix. 2. Jesus seeing their faith, saith unto the sick of the ..."

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