(v. t.) To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay.
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Paralyse
Definition:
(v. t.) Same as Paralyze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since the mid 1970s vascularised muscle grafts have been employed to compensate for the degeneration of the paralysed facial musculature.
(2) Within a year, protective sensibility was restored in the replanted hand, but intrinsic muscles were paralysed.
(3) Doctors hope that injecting stem cells directly into the spine will help repair damaged nerve cells enough for paralysed people to regain some movement, but such treatments have yet to be tested in humans.
(4) Between 1949 and 1974, 137 patients with bilateral vocal cord paralyses were operated upon in our Department.
(5) He believed that, even if Monis was paralysed, the explosive may have been connected to a “dead man’s switch” which would automatically detonate the bomb if the operator becomes incapacitated.
(6) The revelation of the increase comes after the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and a host of senior doctors warned Theresa May in a letter that hospitals are “paralysed by spiralling demand” and the NHS “will fail” without an emergency cash injection.
(7) Mosquitoes in more than 60 countries now carry the virus linked to severe birth defects and a paralysing neurological disorder called Guillain-Barré syndrome.
(8) The decrease in arterial oxygen saturation in response to disconnexion of a paralysed patient from the breathing system, oxygen supply failure with continued mechanical ventilation and disconnexion of the fresh gas supply to Mapleson D and circle absorption breathing systems were studied by simulations on the MacPuf computer model of the cardiorespiratory system.
(9) Bilateral abducens nerve paralyses were present without additional neuro-ophthalmological signs.
(10) This respiratory modulation of reflex effectiveness persisted when the animals were completely paralysed and the phase of the respiratory cycle was monitored through a phrenic electroneurogram.
(11) Injections of antibody were made for four days, starting three days after muscles were paralysed with botulinum toxin.
(12) Great decisions need to be made by a government that is effectively paralysed.
(13) Indications to surgical management of relevant paralyses are specified.
(14) He said that fear paralysed individuals, corporations and governments from making the choices needed to affect real and lasting change.
(15) Through immediate introduction of a multimodal therapy including physical and psychiatric treatment psychogenic paralyses of the hand can be restored totally.
(16) 6-Keto-PGF1 alpha was significantly lower when the infants were paralysed (P = 0.0004) than when they were breathing spontaneously.
(17) One hundred ten patients with facial nerve paralyses were treated by various surgical methods.
(18) Marr had a stroke at the start of January 2013, leaving him partially paralysed down his left side.
(19) 2) Spontaneous mass activity of the oculomotor nucleus, that would result in eye movements if the cats were not paralysed, was followed by sharp wave activity of SC and this was the same after the visual cortex had been ablated bilaterally.
(20) After a brief description of the technical procedure a few cases (secundary fixation of the cricoarytaenoid joint after an old paralysis of the recurrent nerve; lesion of the recurrent nerve by compression after endotracheal intubation; late lesion of the vagal nerve after operation; paralyses of N. laryngicus cranialis after thyroidectomy; congenital bilateral anchylosis of the cricoarytaenoid joints; prove of re-innervation after surgical repair of the recurrent nerve) are reported to demonstrate that this diagnostic aid is necessary as therapy often depends on the electromyographic findings.