Palsy

[pal·sy]

If you're paralyzed, you can describe your condition as palsy. Your grandfather's palsy might confine him to a wheelchair.

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Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis.

Noun
a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor

Noun
loss of the ability to move a body part

Verb
affect with palsy

n.
Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis.

v. t.
To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.

Palsy

Pal"sy , n.; pl. Palsies . [OE. palesie, parlesy, OF. paralesie, F. paralysie, L. paralysis. See Paralysis.] (Med.) Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis. "One sick of the palsy." Mark ii. 3. Bell's palsy, paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it. -- Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer. -- Shaking palsy, paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait.

Palsy

Pal"sy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Palsied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Palsying.] To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.

Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis.

To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.

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Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

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