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paralysis

/puh-ral-uh-sis/US // pəˈræl ə sɪs //UK // (pəˈrælɪsɪs) //

瘫痪,麻痹,麻痹大意,麻痹症

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pa·ral·y·ses [puh-ral-uh-seez]. /pəˈræl əˌsiz/.

    • : Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord.a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
    • : a state of helpless stoppage, inactivity, or inability to act: The strike caused a paralysis of all shipping.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as indepression

Examples

  • Other labs are testing implanted electrodes in people with paralysis.

  • At home, only by acting on that conviction can we avoid paralysis.

  • After decades of work and mass vaccination campaigns that have spared millions of children from paralysis, the world is close to wiping out polio.

  • Its long-term effect on our lives is still unclear, but that uncertainty must not induce paralysis.

  • The company settled into a kind of paralysis, unable to either deliver on or dial back its ambitions.

  • Obama has long argued that Republican obstructionism is to blame for the current paralysis in government.

  • The shooting left Brady with slurred speech, and with partial paralysis, which required him to use a wheelchair.

  • A feeling of helplessness and its resulting paralysis are the enemy of the Good.

  • Yet not everyone is caught up this vortex of paralysis and resentment.

  • Lou continued to hope that his creeping paralysis could be halted.

  • Suffering from paralysis for years previous, his mental energy, as a chronic invalid, was amazing.

  • These symptoms may be present in a variety of degrees, and in advanced cases even imbecility or paralysis may ensue.

  • Paralysis has unnerved and unstrung the whole system and yet the mind has remained uninjured.

  • Of course, if it's repeated enough, it will end up as a permanent paralysis of the part stimulated.

  • Overhead a bird chirped in loneliness, and the sky slowly turned pearly hued as the paralysis left him.