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Definition: Paralysis |
ParalysisNoun1. Loss of the ability to move a body part. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "paralysis" was first used: 1525. (references) |
Etymology: Paralysis \Pa*ral"y*sis\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from to loosen, dissolve, or disable at the side; beside to loosen. See Para-, and Loose, and compare to Palsy.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | Paralysis is a bad dream, denoting financial reverses and disappointment in literary attainment. To lovers, it portends a cessation of affections. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | Loss of ability to move all or part of the body. (references) |
Medicine | Loss or impairment of muscle function or sensation. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Paralysis may be localized (in a disorder called Bell's palsy only the nerve responsible from the movements of the facial muscles is affected) or generalized (stroke patients may present with the paralysis of one or both sides of the body).
See also: paraplegia, tetraplegia
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Paralysis."
Synonym: ParalysisSynonym: palsy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy; cachexia, atrophy, marasmus; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay; (deterioration); decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration. |
Impotence | Helplessness; Adjective: prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration, deliquium, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition; emasculation, orchiotomy, orchotomy. |
Insensibility | Torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state; sleep; suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness; (physical insensibility). |
Physical Insensibility | Noun: insensibility, physical insensibility; obtuseness. Adjective: palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia, anaesthesia; sleep; hemiplegia, motor paralysis; vegetable state; coma. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I must express in the strongest possible terms my profound opposition to the newly instituted practice which imposes severe and intolerable restrictions on the ingress and egress of senior members of the hierarchy and will, in all probability, should the current deplorable innovation be perpetuated, precipitate a progressive constriction of the channels of communication, culminating in a condition of organisational atrophy and administrative paralysis which will render effectively impossible the coherent and co-ordinated discharge of the function of government within Her Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. (Yes, Prime Minister; writing credit: Tom Musca) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Fable of One Samaritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping Hand (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Erwachsenen-lähmung.... : [Grown-up paralysis....].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Urlaubs-bekanntschaft. In Österreich gibt es so lange keine Kinderlähmung,.... : [Vacation acquaintance. In Austria there has been no infantile paralysis for a long time,...].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Infantile Paralysis : This Notice is Posted in Compliance with Law.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis grant].Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Weakness or paralysis. (references) | |
Working Group on Periodic Paralysis. (references) | ||
Paralysis of the arms and legs may also occur. (references) | ||
Economic History | Togo | Frequent political paralysis and intermittent violence marked this period. (references) |
Italy | From 1992 to 1997, Italy faced significant challenges as voters--disenchanted with past political paralysis, massive government debt, extensive corruption, and organized crime's considerable influence--demanded political, economic, and ethical reforms. (references) | |
Armenia | Humanitarian aid originally accounted for up to 85% of this total, reflecting the economic effects caused by Turkish and Azerbaijani embargoes related to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, destruction in northern Armenia left from the devastating 1988 earthquake, and the virtual paralysis of most of the country's factories. (references) | |
Human Rights | Chad | They were tied up and tortured using "arbatachar" (in which the victim's arms and legs are tied behind his back, cutting off circulation and sometimes resulting in paralysis) and transferred to N'Djamena, where seven remained in custody at year's end. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We cannot permit the future to be marred by terror and fear and paralysis. |
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| "Paralysis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Paralysis" is used about 204 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 204 | 21,327 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "paralysis": abducens paralysis 2.sixth nerve paralysis ♦ accommodation paralysis ♦ Bell paralysis ♦ Bell's paralysis ♦ compression paralysis ♦ crutch paralysis ♦ facial paralysis ♦ flaccid paralysis ♦ fowl paralysis ♦ hammerman's paralysis ♦ Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis ♦ infantile paralysis ♦ infectious bulbar paralysis ♦ jake paralysis ♦ Landry's paralysis ♦ lead paralysis ♦ motor paralysis ♦ paralysis agitans ♦ paralysis of one side ♦ paralysis tick ♦ paralysis time ♦ Respiratory Paralysis ♦ shoemaker's paralysis ♦ sleep paralysis ♦ spastic paralysis ♦ tegmental mesencephalic paralysis ♦ telegraphist's paralysis ♦ tick paralysis ♦ Todd paralysis ♦ unilateral paralysis ♦ Vocal Cord Paralysis ♦ writer's paralysis. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "paralysis": near-paralysis. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
sleep paralysis | 236 |
paralysis | 131 |
facial paralysis | 85 |
vocal cord paralysis | 29 |
tick paralysis | 24 |
infantile cerebral paralysis | 20 |
laryngeal paralysis | 19 |
dog paralysis | 18 |
paralysis todds | 17 |
temporary paralysis | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "paralysis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | paralizim, paralizë (palsy), shtangie (consternation, stupor), blokim. (various references) | |
Arabic | فالج (hemiplegia), كسح (palsy, paraplegia, sweep), هزار, تعطل (breakdown, conk, fall due on, give out, heave to, idleness, inactivity, jam, pack, spoil), عجز (balk, buttock, decrepitude, deficiency, disability, emasculation, failure, famine, gap, inability, incapability, incapacitate, incompetence, infirmity, paralyse, paralyze, poorness, posterior, rump, shortage), ركود (doldrums, down, lull, recession, slackness, slump, stagnancy, stagnation), شلل (benumbed, disability, palsy, silencing). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | паралич (apoplexy), парализа (palsy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 麻痹 (Palsies, Palsy, Paralyse, Paralytic, Paralytical, Paralyze, Paralyzed, Paralyzing), 癱" , 痺 (numb). (various references) | |
Czech | paralýza (palsy), ochrnutí (palsy), mrtvice (apoplexy, heart attack, palsy, stroke). (various references) | |
Danish | paralysering, paralyse (loss of motor power), lammelse (loss of motor power). (various references) | |
Dutch | verlamming (loss of motor power), paralyse (loss of motor power). (various references) | |
Esperanto | paralizo. (various references) | |
Farsi | فلج (Mutilate, Palsy), وقفه (Abeyance, Break, Caesura, Cease, Chasm, Deadlock, Gap, Hiatus, Interval, Jib, Pause, Standstill, Station, Stick, Suspension), سکته ناقص , عجز (Inability, Insufficience, Insufficiency, Intolerance), ازکارافتادگی , رعشه (Tremble, Tremor), رخوت (Indolence, Lassitude, Lethargy), بیحالی (Lethargy, Phlegm). (various references) | |
Finnish | halvaus (apoplexy, cerebral thrombosis, stroke). (various references) | |
French | paralysie (bee paralysis, palsy). (various references) | |
Frisian | ferlamming. (various references) | |
German | Lähmung (immobilization, lameness, loss of motor power, palsy), Paralyse (loss of motor power). (various references) | |
Greek | παράλυση (disorganization, loss of motor power, palsy, paralyzation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שתוק (dumb, neutralization, palsy, silenced, silencing, silent), שתקת, שבץ (apoplexy, convulsion, fit, seizure, spasm, stroke), "תאב ות (fossilization, ossification, petrifaction). (various references) | |
Hungarian | paralízis (palsy), bénulás (crippling, palsy), tehetetlenség (helplessness, impotence, impotency, inability, inertia, inertness, powerlessness), megbénulás, megbénítás (disablement), hűdés (stroke of apoplexy), cselekvésképtelenség. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kelumpuhan (consternation). (various references) | |
Italian | paralisi (loss of motor power, palsy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不随 (palsy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まひ (numbness, palsy, stupor), ふずい (annexed to, attaching to, attending, concomitant, incident to, palsy), ちゅうぶう (palsy), ちゅうぶ (center, heart, middle, palsy, region south and south-west of Tokyo area), ちゅうふう (palsy), ちゅうふ (palsy), ちゅうき (annotation, commentary, explanatory note, middle period, palsy). (various references) | |
Korean | 마비 (Numbness, Palsies, Palsy, Paralytic, Paralytical). (various references) | |
Manx | neulheiltys (palsy, paraplegia). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aralysispay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | paralisia (loss of motor power, palsy). (various references) | |
Romanian | paralizie (palsy), paralizare, stagnare (atony, backwater, cessation, involution, languor, lifelessness, malaise, stagnation). (various references) | |
Russian | паралич (apoplexy, palsy, paralyses). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | paraliza (palsy), oduzetost (palsy). (various references) | |
Spanish | parálisis (impasse, numbness, palsy, standoff). (various references) | |
Swedish | förlamning (palsy). (various references) | |
Thai | โรคโปลิโอ (infantile paralysis). (various references) | |
Turkish | inme (apoplexy, descending, fall, going down, landing, palsy, seizure, stroke), felç olma (paralysation), felç (apoplectic, apoplectical, apoplexy, palsy, seizure, stroke), durdurulma (being stopped, suspension). (various references) | |
Ukranian | бепомічність, параліч (palsy). (various references) | |
Welsh | parlys (palsy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | paralysin, paralysis. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | paralisie. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Paralysis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paraklesis, paralisis, paralizis, paralysi, pyrlysis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "paralysis" (pronounced pera"lusi's) |
| 5 | -l u s i' s | Telesis. |
| 4 | -u s i' s | emphasis, parenthesis. |
| 3 | -s i' s | asbestosis, basis, Cassis, electrophoresis, endometriosis, lexis, lysis, oasis, osmosis, osteoporosis, pertussis, praxis, Pyxis, sepsis. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-p-r-s-s-y" | |
-1 letter: airplays. | |
-2 letters: airplay, parlays, pirayas, spirals. | |
-3 letters: aliyas, apiary, assail, paisas, palais, parlay, piraya, playas, prissy, riyals, salary, salpas, spails, spiral, splays, sprays. | |
-4 letters: alary, alias, aliya, apsis, arias, arils, arsis, aryls, aspis, assai, assay, asyla, laari, lairs, lapis, laris, liars, liras, lisps, lysis, lyssa, pails, pairs, paisa, palsy, paras, paris, pilar, playa, plays, prays, priss, raias, rails, rasps, raspy, rayas, rials, riyal, sails, salpa, salps, salsa, saris, sials, sisal, slaps, slays, slips, spail, spars, spays, spiry, splay, spray, sylis. | |
-5 letters: aals, ails, airs, airy, alar, alas, alps, aria, aril, aryl, asps, lair, laps, lari, lars, lass, lays, liar, lipa, lips, lira, lisp, pail, pair, pals, paly, para, pars, pass, pays, pial, pias, pily, piss, play, pray, psis, pyas, raia, rail, raps, rasp, raya, rays, rial, rias, rips, ryas, sail, salp, sals, saps, sari, says, sial, sips, sirs, slap, slay, slip, spar, spas, spay, spry, sris, syli, yaps, yips. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-p-r-s-s-y" | |
+3 letters: hyperplasias. | |
+4 letters: astrophysical, cryptanalysis. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 72 61 6C 79 73 69 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. .- .-.. -.--. ... .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01100001 01101100 01111001 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r a l y s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 0061 006C 0079 0073 0069 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506784677891857585 |
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