paralytic

• “There are various types which have been called the paralytic, the choreic, and the saltatory.”

  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

• “_ Tremor of old age consists of a perpetual trembling of the hands, or of the head, or of other muscles, when they are exerted; and is erroneously called paralytic; and seems owing to the small quantity of animal power residing in the muscular fibres.”

  Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life

• “The resulting sickness, known as paralytic shellfish poisoning, can cause serious illness or death in humans who consume shellfish with toxic levels of red tide.”

  BangorDailyNews.com > News

• “However, Adam suffered from a rare form of the disorder called paralytic strabismus, in which the eye's misalignment results from paralysis of the muscles on one side of the eye.”

  UCLA Newsroom: UCLA Newsroom

• “However, some strains of Alexandrium tamarense produce very potent neurotoxins known as paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs).”

  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]

• “Peaslee had been asked to care for another inmate named John Doton, who was "paralytic" and had maggot-infested bedsores.”

  The Huffington Post: The Poorhouse: Aunt Winnie, Glenn Beck, And The Politics Of The New Deal

• “The "paralytic," of course, meaning the too much gin sometimes.”

  Maggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in Power

• “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

• ““In short, we soon separated, and I went, by the advice of a physician, to drink the Bath waters; for my violent affliction, added to a sedentary life, had thrown me into a kind of paralytic disorder, for which those waters are accounted an almost certain cure.”

  XIII. In Which the Foregoing Story is Farther Continued. Book VIII

• “a physician, to drink the Bath waters; for my violent affliction, added to a sedentary life, had thrown me into a kind of paralytic disorder, for which those waters are accounted an almost certain cure.”

  The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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