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- From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Illness & disability pal‧sy /ˈpɔːlzi $ ˈpɒːl-/ noun [uncountable] 1 an illness that makes your arms and legs shake because you cannot control your muscles 2 old use paralysis → cerebral palsy Examples from the Corpus palsy • It does have different characteristics from other more fixed medical conditions, such as cerebral palsy.
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Definition of palsy noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
What does the word palsy mean? There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the word palsy . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
a disease in which there is a loss or reduction of movement in a part of the body as a result of a problem with the brain or nerves: Facial nerve palsy is usually transient and shows a good response to steroids. Many patients who have had such surgery have suffered strokes and nerve palsies.
The noun palsy can be used to talk about an inability to move, or alternately, an uncontrollable shaking that's caused by some condition or disease. Some kinds of palsy affect one side of a person's face, leaving half of it paralyzed.
Palsy definition: any of a variety of atonal muscular conditions characterized by tremors of the body parts, as the hands, arms, or legs, or of the entire body.. See examples of PALSY used in a sentence.
Palsy definition: A fit of strong emotion marked by the inability to act.
paralysis of any voluntary muscle as a result of some disorder in the nervous system, sometimes accompanied with involuntary tremors. verb transitive Word forms: ˈpalsied or ˈpalsying. 2. to afflict with or as with palsy; paralyze.
