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Definition of Paralyzers
1. paralyzer [n] - See also: paralyzer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paralyzers
Literary usage of Paralyzers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of the Spider by Jean-Henri Fabre, Maurice Maeterlinck (1912)
"the insect-killers, which vies with that of the paralyzers. I speak of insect-killers
in the plural, for the Tarantula must share ..."
2. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1896)
"The one are paralyzers ; the other are stimulants. The one diminish and prevent
vital action ; the other increase and strengthen it. ..."
3. The Chemistry of Commerce: A Simple Interpretation of Some New Chemistry in by Robert Kennedy Duncan (1907)
"Again, it will be noticed that these " paralyzers " of catalytic action are deadly
poisons. Enzyme paralyzing seems to mean animal poisoning. ..."
4. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"A kinase is a more or less complex organic body which activates a preferment.
Substances which reduce, or destroy, the activity of enzymes are paralyzers, ..."
5. Alcohol, a Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine by Fritz Wilhelm Woll, Alfred Fournier, Martha Meir Allen (1900)
"... numerous strictly scientific investigators, both show that each of these drugs,
taken separately or all in combination, act as direct paralyzers, first, ..."
6. Études sur la Queste del saint graal attribuée à Gautier Map by Albert Pauphilet, Colonel Bell Burr, Ernst Ziegler, Douglas Symmers (1921)
"... remedies and those which promote nutrition rather than by those which lower
the heart's action or act directly as paralyzers of muscular activity. ..."
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