What's the difference between afflict and paralyze?
Afflict
Definition:
(v. t.) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
(v. t.) To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment.
(v. t.) To make low or humble.
(p. p. & a.) Afflicted.
Example Sentences:
(1) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
(2) Similar tensions afflict the US political scene, where anti-immigrant and anti-trade rhetoric have been prominent from the start of the current presidential election round.
(3) The treatment of the handicapped is discussed in the light of the alterations by which they are most commonly afflicted.
(4) However, we very often noted certain characteristics of personality structure and social attitude in the patients afflicted with the disease.
(5) A child afflicted with atopic dermatitis developed a Kaposi-Juliusberg's syndrome.
(6) By comparison, our patient was afflicted at a considerably older age.
(7) Above all, MPs should vote to stop needless misery for families afflicted by this rare but terrible disorder.
(8) A significant part of his work on surgery consists of early descriptions of neurosurgical diagnosis and treatment, including the surgical treatment of head injuries and skull fractures, spinal injuries and dislocations, hydrocephalus and subdural effusions, headache, and many other medical afflictions.
(9) A total of 65 students and one female teacher were afflicted with an unusual illness following alleged inhalation of a 'gas' in the school.
(10) Caucasians were almost exclusively afflicted by this form of cancer (93% of this series).
(11) Of those who died before the age of 83, 11 per cent were afflicted with dementia, with a further 4 per cent in the early stages, and 17 per cent had other mental problems.
(12) The life within a family of a Rett syndrome child is usually in a constant state of changing emotion due to the overwhelming responsibility of caring for the afflicted child and meeting the needs of the remaining family.
(13) A combination of techniques is necessary to diagnose, and both surgical and medical approaches are needed to treat this often distressingly persistent affliction.
(14) Glomerulonephritis caused end-stage renal disease in Navajos at a rate at least 1.8 times that in US whites and afflicted a much younger population.
(15) The observation of a young north african afflicted with a tic disorder suggests an underlying meaning in the apparently confused motoric discharges, thanks to psychodrama and to ethnopsychoanalytic consultations with the family.
(16) None of those concerns, though, afflicted Jeremy Darroch, the chief executive of BSkyB, who emailed Sky News staff telling them the compromise was a "good outcome" that would maintain "long-term continuity".
(17) Using brains of English setter dogs afflicted with a form of this disorder, the autofluorescent storage granules have been isolated and subjected to extraction with chloroform-methanol.
(18) Other afflictions, such as broncho-pulmonary cancer, are beginning to cause problems.
(19) Physical medicine and rehabilitation measures are important components of the challenging treatment of patients of all age groups who are afflicted with severe arthritis.
(20) Since 1985, we have provided coordinated DNA-based and cytogenetic prenatal analysis for couples at risk for offspring afflicted with the fragile X [fra(X)] syndrome.
Paralyze
Definition:
(v. t.) To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy.
(v. t.) Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two days later the lambs were delivered, given sheep surfactant, paralyzed, and their lungs mechanically ventilated.
(2) Dogs were anesthetized, paralyzed, and mechanically ventilated.
(3) To examine the effects of focally cooling three areas (rostral, intermediate, and caudal) of the ventral medullary surface (VMS) on respiratory oscillations in cervical sympathetic and phrenic nerve activity, 12 cats were anesthetized, vagotomized, paralyzed, and artificially ventilated with 7% CO2 in O2.
(4) The changes in the levels and distribution of gamma- and epsilon-subunit-specific mRNAs in toxin-paralyzed muscle correlate well with the spatial appearance of functional fetal and adult AChR channel subtypes along the muscle fiber.
(5) The spectrum of disabilities attendant to laryngeal paralysis range from mild hoarseness to complete upper airway obstruction depending upon the static position of the paralyzed cord or cords.
(6) The arrangement of the ventral root afferent fibers was investigated in anesthetized and paralyzed cats.
(7) Neural activities were recorded in decerebrate, vagotomized, paralyzed, and ventilated cats.
(8) Intracellular recordings and labelings with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) of inspiratory neurons were performed in decerebrate, paralyzed and ventilated rats.
(9) For all mutants the virus dose required to paralyze 50% of the infected animals was significantly higher than of the parent strain Barty.
(10) Experiments were carried out on 36 urethane-chloralose aneasthesized, paralyzed, vagotomized and artificially ventilated rabbits.
(11) Several procedures have been developed to restore closure of the paralyzed upper eyelid (implantation of gold weights or open wire springs) or to correct lower lid lagophthalmos and ectropion (lower lid tightening with a Bick procedure or insertion of a closed eyelid spring).
(12) Visual response latencies and rise times of X and Y ganglion cells recorded in the optic tract of anaesthetized, paralyzed cats were measured during repeated stimulation with sinusoidal gratings.
(13) All five stages are identified and are the same regardless of whether the animal is unparalyzed or is paralyzed and artificially respired.
(14) Inspiratory bursts were recorded from the phrenic nerve in Macaca fascicularis monkeys paralyzed and ventilated by means of a servoventilator driven by the inspiratory discharge of the phrenic nerve.
(15) The spinal cord injured patient has been the focus of clinical and research efforts to restore functional movement and obtain therapeutic benefits by electric stimulation of upper-motor-neuron paralyzed muscles.
(16) A transient phase of weak immunity was detected prior to the onset of paralysis when induced by relatively low paralyzing doses of polysaccharide.
(17) After 3 months of training it was found that endurance increased from 8 min at a work rate of 0 W to 30 min at a work rate of 40 W. Compared to the cardiovascular responses in non-paralyzed subjects, computerized cycle ergometry was found to be associated with higher relative stresses for a given level of absolute work.
(18) It is important for clinicians to recognize that benign knee joint effusions are likely to be encountered in paralyzed patients.
(19) Successful electrotherapy depends upon an early beginning, the selective stimulation of the paralyzed muscles with exponential current at a sufficiently high intensity under isometric conditions and by avoiding overstretching of the muscles.
(20) Following intubation of the trachea the patient was paralyzed and mechanically ventilated.