Category:Paralysis

Pa*ral"y*sis, n. Etym: [l., fr. Gr. Para-, and loose, and cf. Palsy.] (med.)

Defn: abolition of function, whether complete or partial; esp., the Loss of the power of voluntary motion, with or without that of Sensation, in any part of the body; palsy. See hemiplegia, and Paraplegia. Also used figuratively. "utter paralysis of memory." G. Eliot. Mischievous practices arising out of the paralysis of the powers of Ownership. Duke of argyll (1887).