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What does paralysis mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word paralysis? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (pathology) The complete loss of voluntary control of part of person's body, such as one or more limbs.
  2. A state of being inable to act.
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Those who recover consciousness often have some paralysis, which can be severe.
When I was telling my mother about my sleep paralysis, I told her there was a website that said I was experiencing alien abduction.
This is the same bacterial nerve toxin that causes botulism, an illness which causes muscle weakness or paralysis.
The effects of aldicarb and levamisole were scored in acute paralysis assays as follows.
Marta's path to becoming a healer began when, as a child, she believed she was cured of a paralysis through prayer.
Such, at any rate, was the answer that rang back at my moment of frustration and paralysis and panic.

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