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Example sentences for "palsy"

Lexicographically close words:
palps; palpus; pals; palsied; palsies; palter; paltering; paltry; paludal; paludes
  1. He has had the palsy since then, poor man--ah!

  2. Anne Barozellona, at Valladolid, almost sixty years old, was cured of a desperate palsy by invoking St. Ignatius, with a vow to perform a novena.

  3. Hopkins, there is fracture of the spine, with total palsy below the seat of injury.

  4. In both cases total palsy occurred at once upon the receipt of injury, and in each the same conditions of the anus have obtained as before described.

  5. Whence this sudden palsy in the limbs of your charity?

  6. And when they could not offer him unto him for the multitude, they uncovered the roof where he was: and opening it, they let down the bed wherein the man sick of the palsy lay.

  7. And behold they brought to him one sick of the palsy lying in a bed.

  8. Accordingly, the hypothesis of psychogenic or hysterical palsy may be set up.

  9. Of course a transient peripheral palsy can be produced by pressure of the radial nerve without any change of electrical excitability, but such a change is not associated with atrophy.

  10. Only on such a basis could the syphilitic ocular palsy of Case 19 be satisfactorily explained.

  11. Yet an atonic atrophic palsy with loss of tendon reflexes (supinator) is inappropriate.

  12. Neuritis and poliomyelitis producing an Erb’s palsy without any effect upon the electrical reactions is an hypothesis not to be entertained.

  13. A dreadful palsy has beset me for the last few days.

  14. She stood a moment to collect her thoughts; but alas, thinking was impossible; there was a palsy upon her mind.

  15. These attacks recurred irregularly during the next four years, since when they have ceased, although the palsy persists.

  16. Now, whatever a facial convulsion of apoplectic origin, secondary to facial palsy and accompanied with spastic hemiplegia and athetosis, may be, it is at all events no tic.

  17. As a matter of fact, scriveners' palsy is met with in people who, so far from being professional writers, do not use the pen much at all.

  18. No less positive is our refusal to accept as tics spasmodic contractions in association with or subsequent to facial palsy or contracture of peripheral or central origin.

  19. In spite of the affinity between these two sorts of functional disturbance, we do not feel it incumbent on us to enter on a detailed study of scriveners' palsy in this place.

  20. In repose there was no further indication of the old facial palsy than the flattening of the facial lines on the right.

  21. And over his pale palsy breathing breath His eye is sunk upon her--"Thou must leave The worm to waste for love of thee, and grieve Without thee, as I may not.

  22. He was broken in health and fortune when, in 1726, he had an attack of palsy which was the prelude to his death.

  23. He fell now into that induration and palsy of the heart which is peculiar to man; the stream of love hung as a frozen, jagged waterfall over the rocks.

  24. Gaspard's expression about the indwelling of the spiritual world within the spirit, and his look, and the thought of his palsy lent a romantic awfulness to the hour and the silence in Albano's eyes.

  25. When the man sick of the palsy was forgiven, "certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth" (ix.

  26. And he arose immediately," the palsy leaving him and his strength returning, as Peter spake these words.

  27. The palsy is a sad disease, which often takes away the use of the legs and arms, and renders the poor sufferer perfectly helpless; nor can the physician restore the use of the limbs.

  28. The palsy gradually extends over the whole body--a sure precursor of approaching death, which is rarely delayed beyond eight days, and never more than ten, from the onset.

  29. Partial palsy is mentioned by numerous authors as occurring during or shortly after attacks of relapsing fever.

  30. The lethargic or tranquil form of rabies in dogs is manifested neither by furious madness nor by palsy of the jaws, but the nervous prostration is shown in a profound lethargy and apathy.

  31. In a case reported by Tennent[19] facial palsy was developed six days after the second crisis.

  32. For rheumatic neuralgia [272] it is almost a specific, and for palsy it has often proved of service.

  33. A patient seeking relief from rheumatic or neuralgic affections of the head and face, or for palsy of the tongue, should chew the root of this Pyrethrum for several minutes.

  34. Sage helps the nerves, and by its powerful might Palsy is cured, and fever put to flight.

  35. Then came such a crisis as the last days of McClellan's retreat to the James River, or the forced march of the Sixth Army Corps to Gettysburg, and at once these men succumbed with palsy of the legs.

  36. There can be no doubt, I think, that the palsy of children becomes more frequent in cities just in proportion to their growth in population.

  37. Once more palsy stricken, his feeble steps tottered along the lane and led him toward the pagoda.

  38. The palsy had all gone now, and his hand was as firm as a rock.

  39. One additional remark I have to make with reference to the loss of power, or palsy of various muscles, which frequently follows diphtheria.

  40. The loss of power is at first seldom complete, though neither arm nor leg can be used to any good purpose, and during the ensuing twenty-four hours the palsy often grows worse, and sometimes affects one or both limbs of the opposite side.

  41. It has been ascertained that this form of palsy depends on a state of congestion, or overfilling of the minute blood-vessels of the spinal marrow.

  42. Until the slave trade breathed its haze upon the vision of the church, and smote her with palsy and decay, commentators saw no slavery in, "The souls that they had gotten.

  43. Until the African slave trade breathed its haze into the eyes of the church and smote her with palsy and decay, commentators saw no slavery in, "The souls that they had gotten.

  44. A stroke of palsy frequently produces this result, and in such cases the name sometimes suggests the object, while the object no longer recalls the name.

  45. Or we may find the thing too much for us to do, impracticable, beyond our strength and means, or disease may palsy the frame, so that it shall not obey the mandate of the spirit.

  46. Complete palsy is rare, but in a large proportion of cases which have lasted some time there will be found, independently of any wasting of muscles, a positive and considerable loss of motor power.

  47. On the other hand, Remak said that myelitis, with neuritis, might be the origin of paraplegia and simultaneous palsy of bladder and rectum.

  48. And undoubtedly a certain amount of aching pain sometimes attends certain stages of lead-palsy of the extensor muscles of the forearm.

  49. Vaso-motor palsy undoubtedly is very often present, in fact every attack of neuralgia of a certain severity is thus complicated; and there is no reason to doubt that this paralysis could be caused by lesions within the medulla.

  50. He expels from a fountain the devils who smote with palsy and madness all who bathed therein.

  51. Palsy and blindness would be the least that would follow.

  52. The attack of palsy and apoplexy are known to recur with great frequency about the equinoxes.

  53. Of palsy and apoplexy from violent exertions.

  54. On examining her mouth I found the second molaris of the under-jaw on the side before affected was now decayed, and concluded, that this tooth had occasioned the stroke of the palsy by the pain and consequent exertion it had caused.

  55. His feeble form was propt upon a long staff, a palsy shook his white locks, and his garments had all the quaintness of antiquity.

  56. By Heaven above, I tremble less with palsy than with love; And tho' my husky murmurs creak uncouth, My words flow unobstructed by a tooth.


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    Other words:
    ague; apoplexy; benumb; blunt; catalepsy; chloroform; chorea; deaden; dope; drug; dull; epilepsy; freeze; headache; jactitation; kayo; migraine; neuralgia; neuritis; numb; palsy; paralysis; paralyze; paresis; quaking; quavering; quivering; sciatica; shakes; shaking; shingles; shivering; shuddering; spasm; stroke; stun; stupefy; trembling; vibration