wasting paralysis

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• wasting paralysis — noun see wasting palsy …   Useful english dictionary

• wasting palsy — noun or wasting paralysis : creeping paralysis …   Useful english dictionary

• paralysis — /peuh ral euh sis/, n., pl. paralyses / seez /. 1. Pathol. a. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. b. a disease characterized by this, esp. palsy. 2. a state… …   Universalium

• paralysis — Synonyms and related words: a wise passiveness, abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, apoplexy, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, catalepsy, cataplexy, chill, chills, colic,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• wasting — Synonyms and related words: Sanforizing, abscess, aging, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attenuation, backache, baneful, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic …   Moby Thesaurus

• Klumpke's paralysis — Klump·ke s paralysis klümp kēz n atrophic paralysis of the forearm and the hand due to injury to the eighth cervical and first thoracic nerves Dé·jé·rine Klump·ke dā zhā rēn klüm kē Augusta (1859 1927) French neurologist. Déjérine Klumpke was a… …   Medical dictionary

• Klumpke's paralysis — a partial paralysis of the arm caused by injury to a baby s brachial plexus during birth. This may result from an obstetric manoeuvre in which the arm is raised at the shoulder to an extreme degree, which damages the lower cervical (neck) and… …   The new mediacal dictionary

• Palsy — Paralysis, generally partial, whereby a local body area is incapable of voluntary movement (motor function). For example, Bell’s palsy is localized paralysis of the muscles on one side of the face. The word “palsy” is a corruption (and… …   Medical dictionary

• syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …   Medical dictionary

• muscle disease — ▪ pathology Introduction       any of the diseases and disorders that affect the human muscle system (muscle system, human). Diseases and disorders that result from direct abnormalities of the muscles are called primary muscle diseases; those… …   Universalium

• nervous system disease — Introduction       any of the diseases or disorders that affect the functioning of the human nervous system (nervous system, human). Everything that humans sense, consider, and effect and all the unlearned reflexes of the body depend on the… …   Universalium