palsy
Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of…Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
» My dad has recently got a cerebral palsy.
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2 senses(countable, uncountable)Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
Lähmung
парали́чparalíč
loss of the ability to move a body part
(slang)Mate, chum.
Examples
4 sentencesMy dad has recently got a cerebral palsy.
My dad has recently been diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
One of the effects of progressive muscle diseases like cerebral palsy is muscle stiffness.
Tom has cerebral palsy.
ruУ Тома церебральный паралич. — odexed
deTom hat cerebrale Kinderlähmung. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English palesie, from Anglo-Norman paralisie, parleisie et al., from Latin parFrom Middle English palesie, from Anglo-Norman paralisie, parleisie et al., from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”), from παραλύω (paralúō, “to disable on one side”), from παρα- (para-, “beside”) + λύω (lúō, “loosen”). Doublet of paralysis.
From pal + -sy.
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Forms
plural: palsiesSynonyms
1 synonyms- loss of the ability to move a body part:paralysis
Word family
13 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.