That single moment was all the soldier's nature in her gave to the abandonment of despair, to the paralysis that seized her.
The head was turned round and pressed closely on the left shoulder; paralysis had seized on the left side, and the right was beginning to be affected.
Amaurosis is a paralysis of the nerves of the eye: it is sometimes cured, but then gradually, and not instantaneously.
Possibly the paralysis of despair had already reached the nerve centres of Chinese statesmanship, or the desperate scheme of a general expulsion of foreigners had begun to fascinate the leading spirits.
The rest of us degenerate in a painless paralysis we think of as pleasure.
In this paralysis of fear she awoke, staring with wide eyes at the flickering flame of the lamp, to a world filled with excruciating sound--the siren of the Chippering Mill!
The other day a conductor on my road had a shock of paralysis when a man paid his fare.
In senile dementia and in general paralysis the brain is shrunken and the convolutions atrophied, the increased space in the ventricles and between the convolutions being filled up with the cerebro-spinal fluid.
The room was quiet; the paralysis left him; and in the instant of his release the clear brain of Garry Connell flashed from chaos to lay before him a full-formed plan.
The paralysis that had held Garry's muscles was gone, and he came slowly to his feet to see the edge of the cover he had tried vainly to move, rising smoothly in the air.
And there intervened in him a sort of paralysis of speech and movement, the kind of quivering which comes when a man has received a deadly insult, and does not yet know how he is going to take it, or rather what it is going to do with him.
From such sentimental paralysis he was rudely awakened, however, one afternoon, just as he was starting off to Richmond, by a young man with a bicycle and a face oddly familiar, who came forward faintly smiling.
Paralysis why is paralysis a syllable why is it not more lively.
What is meant by a transient paralysis of a nerve?
These and similar acts are executed by the same mechanism as that previously described in the case of paralysis from an injury of the spinal cord.
Occasionally a nerve is so compressed as to be temporarily unable to perform its functions: a transient paralysis then takes place.
State what you can of the form of paralysis known as paraplegia.
Explain how injury of the cord may produceparalysis of motion in one leg, and at the same time a loss of sensation in the other.
This condition serves to explain how a disease or injury of the cord may cause a paralysis of motion in one leg, and a loss of sensation in the other.
A form of paralysisaffecting the lower half of the body.
In his final illness, when paralysis was slowly creeping up his frame, and he had lost the sense of place and time, he would now and then start from his stupor and send across the State a bolt from the bow which no other could bend.
There was nothing for it but depreciation in the near future; soon more and more depreciation; until after prolonged stagnation and paralysis the value of all her property would collapse as did that of the continental currency.
Few understood the herculean task of rising from the paralysis of a seven years contest with a powerful foe--the formation of a government entirely different from the one which had stamped its customs upon the people.
Mr. Walton did much to remove the incipient paralysis and produce a healthy tone in the body politic.
I have doomed to paralysis one half of my being, live only half a life, and love with half a love.
There was no need for the doctor to tell me that it means paralysis of the bowels.
Although this latter might be confused with paralysis of the lower jaw from injury to the nerve, etc.
John Quincy Adams was stricken withparalysis on Feb.
Complete paralysisof the recurrent laryngeal nerve may also occur, but is nearly always confined to one side’ (C.
Halstead refers to a case of bilateral peroneal paralysis following salpingectomy in the Trendelenburg posture which disabled a patient for six months.
If there be facial paralysis occurring in the course of a chronic middle-ear suppuration.
When the motor nerves are affected, the paralysis is commonly abductor and may be unilateral or bilateral, the latter associated with inspiratory dyspnœa.
In some of the lighter forms the paralysis passes off in a few days, but cases are known in which it has persisted for many months, and as it renders the limb useless for a time it is a serious matter.
If the abscess be very large, there may be paresis or paralysis of the facial nerve and perhaps also of the upper extremity.
Partial union is effected in cases of paralysis of the first division of the fifth nerve when corneal ulceration threatens.
This stretching is probably a greater factor in producingparalysis than pressure.
This will lead to paralysis of the muscles supplied by it.
If a burr be used, the nerve may be completely torn across and permanent paralysis may result.
They could not function in harmony when the strike threatened the paralysis of all railway transportation.
In time of need no amount of individual excellence would avail against the paralysis which would follow inability to work as a coherent whole, under skillful and daring leadership.
No legacy would make me more proud than leaving in place a bipartisan consensus for the cause of world freedom, a consensus that prevents a paralysis of American power from ever occurring again.
Let us pass for the moment the menace in the possible paralysis of such service as we have and note the failure, for whatever reason, to expand our transportation to meet the Nation's needs.
The paralysis has been further augmented by the steady increase in recent years of the proportion of bank assets invested in long-term securities, such as mortgages and bonds.
The continuing creditparalysis has operated to accentuate the deflation and liquidation of commodities, real estate, and securities below any reasonable basis of values.
We are seeking to restore the world trading system which was shattered by the war and to remedy the economic paralysis which grips many countries.
We must avoid a paralysis of the will for peace and international security.
When we contemplate the inadequacy of to-day it is easy to believe that the next few decades will witness the paralysis of our transportation-using social scheme or a complete reorganization on some new basis.
The result of their loquacity had been a seeming paralysis of her organs of speech.
The happiness and the prosperity of a community might be more easily wrecked by the paralysis of its postal and telegraph services, for example, than by a mutiny on shipboard.
A rabbit inoculated with a single drop of the solution died, in fourteen seconds, of complete paralysis of the muscles, while a drop placed on a piece of meat and given to a cat proved fatal within one minute.
Heavy as this affliction was, it brought none of the paralysis of grief caused by Sammy's death: rather, as after the passing of the Chevalier, she was urged by the thought of her dead child to more and higher efforts.
Inertia is largely fostered by theparalysis of independent action.
The above train of symptoms has also been recorded in similar cases; added to which paralysis of the lower extremities is frequent.
With the native preparation of curare, it is impossible to prolong this stage, and symptoms of paralysis soon become associated with those of excitement.
We may suppose that the sudden death is really due to a rapid paralysis of the respiration, and suffocation.
Paralysis of the extensor muscles, with permanent deformity, may result.
Kossa, considering that potassium permanganate ought, theoretically, to act as a chemical antidote to potassium cyanide, by checking the paralysis of the respiratory centres, has performed some experiments.
The convulsions pass into paralysis and insensibility.
The symptoms were immediateparalysis and insensibility, and the respiration rapidly fell.
If the paralysis continues, there is a wasting and degeneration of the muscle, but this is seen in paralysisfrom any cause.
The diastole of paralysis is the most frequent form of death.
The lowest produce merely excitement from irritation of the encephalic nervous centres, and the highest, paralysis of those centres.
Death follows quickly through paralysis of the respiratory centre, the respirations first ceasing, then the pulse; in a few cases, the heart ceases first to beat.
Paralysis For moveless limbs no pity I crave, That never were swift!
The paralysis will wear off before that, so he'll be all right when he wakes up; and we're going away from here with every watt of power we can put out.
The space suits were removed with care, and after the three had been relieved of their pistols and other articles which the Nevians thought might prove to be weapons, the strange paralysis was lifted entirely.
He died of pulmonary paralysis at the end of the fourth year.
One of the most important indications for the use of the drug is threatening paralysis of the heart from insufficient compensation.
