paralytic

How To Use paralytic In A Sentence

• But our mixed-up legal strategy is to insist, paralytically, on a kind of hyper-sovereignty of the nation-state.
• Matthew, in annexing this cure to that of the leper, who was a Jew, intimates this; the leprous Jews Christ touched and cured, for he preached personally to them; but the paralytic Gentiles he cured at a distance; for to them he did not go in person, but sent his word and healed them; yet in them he was more magnified. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
• He was hard at work becoming paralytic in the Ship tavern when I arrived. THE TARTAN RINGERS
• I can cause a shaking that is called 'paralytic dementia', but used to be called 'general paresis of the insane'. Treponema pallidum
• It is true that even the great Dr. Johnson defined the word pastern as 'the knee of an horse,' an anatomical inexactitude which would produce on an ostler the same kind of paralytic shock that a sailor might experience on finding in the same famous work leeward and windward described in identical terms as 'toward the wind.' On Dictionaries
• Objective To study the functional rehabilitation of the paralytic hands caused by peripheral nerve injury, and evaluate the clinical use of electrodiagnosis for the disorders.
• As to the _legs_, the so-called varicose veins are indications of weak blood-vessels and intestinal hemorrhage, while inflamed nerves lead to the conclusion of gouty diathesis and the danger of paralytic strokes. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
• By the end of the evening they were all absolutely paralytic.
• Constipation is a serious problem, because patients with PD are particularly susceptible to impaction, obstruction, volvulus, and paralytic ileus.
• Puffer fish grown in culture, for example, do not develop tetrodotoxins, and it is possible that the puffer fish, in addition to synthesizing tetrodotoxins, may serve as transvectors of either tetrodotoxin or ciguatoxin, a different chemical that originates in a dinoflagellate and causes paralytic shellfish poisonings. The Serpent and the Rainbow