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Date "PARALYSES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Loss or impairment of muscle function or sensation. (references) |
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Crosswords: PARALYSES |
| Specialty definitions using "PARALYSES": Porphyria, Acute Intermittent. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
References | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Life too near paralyses art. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The biting cold paralyses him. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The prognosis for the periodic paralyses varies. (references) | |
Griggs, R, and Ptacek, L. The Periodic Paralyses. (references) | ||
Tawil, R, et al. Randomized trials of dichlorphenamide in the periodic paralyses. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PARALYSES" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "PARALYSES" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 60% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (plural) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
periodic paralyses | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PARALYSES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | lähmt (palsies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aralysespay паралич (apoplexy, palsy, paralysis). (various references) pl. de paralysis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"PARALYSES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paraklesis, paralise, paralisis, paralizis, paralysed, paralysi, pyrlysis, pyrolysed, pyrolyser. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-p-r-s-s-y" | |
-1 letter: apyrases, paralyse, parsleys, sparsely. | |
-2 letters: apyrase, assayer, earlaps, lapsers, parlays, parleys, parsley, pessary, players, rayless, replays, sarapes, slayers, sparely. | |
-3 letters: aspers, earlap, lapser, lapses, lasers, layers, lyases, parlay, parles, parley, parses, passel, passer, payers, pearls, pearly, playas, player, plyers, prases, rassle, relays, repass, repays, replay, resays, salary, saleps, salpae, salpas, sarape, sayers, sepals. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-p-r-s-s-y" | |
+3 letters: hyperplasias. | |
+4 letters: cryptanalyses, hyperarousals. | |
+5 letters: apocryphalness. | |
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