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palsy |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: palsy n 1: loss of the ability to move a body part [syn: {paralysis}] 2: a condition marked by uncontrollable tremor v : affect with palsy From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Palsy a shorter form of "paralysis." Many persons thus afflicted were cured by our Lord (Matt. 4:24; 8:5-13; 9:2-7; Mark 2:3-11; Luke 7:2-10; John 5:5-7) and the apostles (Acts 8:7; 9:33, 34).
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