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Example sentences for "paralyses"

Lexicographically close words:
parallelograms; parallels; paralogism; paralyse; paralysed; paralysing; paralysis; paralytic; paralytick; paralyze
  1. The idea evoked may then become the nucleus of a sort of crystallisation which invades the understanding and paralyses all critical faculty.

  2. This domination entirely paralyses our critical faculty, and fills our soul with astonishment and respect.

  3. Convulsions, tremors, paralyses of various forms and degrees are common in hysteria.

  4. Snake venom paralyses the muscles of respiration, and the patient ceases to breathe.

  5. Extreme or prolonged cold paralyses but does not kill micro-organisms.

  6. After the acute symptoms have passed off, various localised paralyses may develop, affecting particularly the nerves of the palatal and orbital muscles, less frequently the lower limbs.

  7. In addition to this, certain bacteria produce toxins that give rise to definite and distinct groups of symptoms--such as the convulsions of tetanus, or the paralyses that follow diphtheria.

  8. Pain, disturbances of sensation, and muscular paralyses may result from pressure on nerves.

  9. So you see, gentlemen, that whenever they attempt to move in the ordinary paths of government one of these so-called principles immediately rises up, paralyses their action, and makes them an object either of mockery or of compassion.

  10. Next day, she begins again and paralyses two grubs; the day after that, she does the same, but with a zeal that decreases from day to day.

  11. The slippery surface only half paralyses this strange method of locomotion.

  12. In the vast majority of cases the upshot of operative intervention is the creation of transient or permanent muscular paralyses and pareses.

  13. All that we can say is that the phrase apparently stood for a complex of facial "nervous movements," whether accompanied by pains and paralyses or not.

  14. But Mordecai is not a fatalist whose creed paralyses his energies.

  15. I propose to enquire if the poison of the Bee, the chief of the Apidae, is suitable for a surgery that paralyses without killing.

  16. The Sphex paralyses Crickets and Grasshoppers to provide food for her grubs.

  17. There are paralyses that affect the sight; others that affect the mind.

  18. I have not forgotten that your thesis was on the paralyses due to the affection of the spinal cord, and it was remarkable enough for us to discuss it in our 'parlotte' of the Rue de Vaugirard.

  19. And of these marriage alone kills the individuality, paralyses liberty and is the embodiment of a paradox.

  20. De Ruyter, he inferred that less than the one-millionth of a grain of sulphate of atropine, in an extremely diluted state, if applied directly to the iris of a dog, paralyses the muscles of this organ.

  21. A stronger solution of two grains of this salt to an ounce of water, though exciting copious secretion, paralyses the leaf.

  22. We know that a rather strong solution of this salt, though it does not injure the leaves of Drosera, paralyses their power of movement, and I have no doubt, from the following case, that this holds good with Pinguicula.

  23. Aconite paralyses both the reflex and motor activity of the spinal cord, hence there is an almost total loss of muscular power.

  24. The late effects of brain injury, dementia, deafness and various forms of paralyses were carefully studied by such men as Fallopius, Pare and Della Croce.

  25. Continuous fevers represented for him the effect of the gouty toxin upon the large vessels, while paralyses might occur if the gouty toxin involved the "porosities" of the nerves.

  26. The pain never recurred; the left extremities recovered power rapidly; but it was six weeks before the ocular paralyses were completely well.

  27. Not only were cerebrospinal paralyses wrongly diagnosticated, but ischemic paralysis, plexus paralysis, arthritis deformans and synovitis.

  28. On account however, of the completeness of the monoplegia, and the fact that the reflex paralyses as a rule affect only the distal portion of the limb, the diagnosis of hysteria had to be made in addition to the diagnosis of reflex disorder.

  29. This is an example of the so-called acroparalyses, paralyses limited to the hand or foot, many of which have developed in this war, after grazing wounds or more severe injury.

  30. The paralyses are disabilities that would ensure absence from the front.

  31. Such paralyses due to muscular stupor ought to get well in a few days or weeks.

  32. We may be reminded, on the other hand, that too much introspection is not wholesome, that it begets morbid ways of thought, paralyses the energies, and degenerates into insipid sentimentality.

  33. There is nothing that so paralyses the work of the preacher as the habit of choosing favourite topics and ignoring less attractive subjects.

  34. Such a resolution may be repeated a thousand times without any result following, because the fatal poison of sin is like a snake bite that paralyses its victims.

  35. Endurance wears out persecution, patient submission paralyses hostile violence, for you cannot keep on striking down unresisting crowds with the sword.

  36. Fear paralyses service, cuts the nerve of activity, makes a man refuse obedience to God.

  37. Their appearance paralyses the guards, who would have kept the Marys from the grave.

  38. Paralyses of this kind are identical with what are known as ‘sleeping palsies’.

  39. Such paralyses may last from a few days to several months, and are very troublesome when associated with the passage of food into the trachea; when severe, nourishment should consist of fluids which can be administered by a nasal tube.

  40. One cannot remain long in the school without observing the absence of that timidity, that haunting fear of making a mistake, which paralyses the minds and bodies of so many of our children.

  41. Systematic distrust paralyses and demoralises those who live under it, and so tends to justify the cruelty into which it too readily develops.

  42. In other words he devitalises each of them by cutting it off from the life which is common to all of them, and so paralyses its capacity for growing in the very act of taking thought for its growth.

  43. The stage often paralyses a composer's inspiration, that is why symphonic and chamber music are so far superior to opera.

  44. When I am quite well--as I am at present--I am seized with a feverish thirst for work, but the thought of the shortness of human life paralyses all my energy.

  45. It is to be remembered, in the next place, that while contrast exhibits the characters of things, it very often neutralises or paralyses their power.

  46. A group of sensory phenomena is conspicuous in hysteria, sometimes combined with the paralyses and attacks but often existing alone.

  47. What has been stated of the paralyses is true of the insensitive areas; they correspond to an idea of a part and not to an anatomical unit.

  48. And the anaesthesias yield as do the hysteric paralyses to a variety of agents, from prayer and persuasion to a bitter tonic or a blow.

  49. Modern neurology soon discovered that these paralyses were quite unlike those seen when there is "real" injury to the brain, spinal cord or the peripheral nerves.

  50. The hysteric paralyses which are featured in all the literatures of the world are curious manifestations and often very stubborn.


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