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PARALYSIS, or PALSY (from Gr. aapal,6a , to relax; Wycliffe has palesy, and another old form of the word is parlesy)

PARALYSIS, or PALSY (from Gr. aapal,6a , to relax; Wycliffe has palesy, and another old See also:
FORM (Lat. forma)
form of the word is parlesy) , a See also:

TERM

term which in its wider acceptation indicates abolition of motor, sensory, sensorial or vaso-motor functions, but in medical nomenclature is usually restricted to the loss or impairment of voluntary See also:

MUSCULAR

muscular See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power .

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