(n.) Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis.
(v. t.) To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
(2) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
(3) The maternal age of children with CONH was significantly less than for the cerebral-palsied children which, in turn, was significantly less than for the FAS children.
(4) A 56-year-old man was admitted because of left facial palsy and hearing loss of bilateral ears.
(5) We performed a combined one-stage approach for the treatment of eighteen spastic subluxated or dislocated hips in eleven children who had cerebral palsy.
(6) If no other indication to operate occurs, we accept a conservative treatment of the humeral fracture with radial palsy.
(7) Auditory brain stem potentials (ABP) were recorded in 27 patients with Bell's palsy during the early phase of the disease and 1-3 months later.
(8) Peroneal nerve palsy may be avoided by careful surgical technique and postoperative dressings.
(9) The cavernous sinus is often involved pathologically, which can cause ocular motor nerve palsies with or without facial sensory disturbances.
(10) A transistor radio activated by a mercury switch was used to reinforce head posture in two retarded children with severe cerebral palsy.
(11) Postoperatively, 12 cases of miosis and one of asymptomatic phrenic nerve palsy were observed, but there were no serious complications.
(12) In 3 of the 4 cases, the palsy was ipsilateral to the side of the temporal lobectomy.
(13) Musculoskeletal manifestations of cerebral palsy (CP) change with growth, necessitating orthopaedic management.
(14) A case of acute angle-closure glaucoma precipitated by oculomotor nerve palsy in a patient with shallow anterior chambers is reported.
(15) Results obtained were as follows; 1) both R1 and R2 disappeared or prolonged in latencies by nuclear as well as peripheral facial nerve palsy, since the facial nerve was the final common pathway.
(16) A case of a patient with right temporal bone involvement with facial palsy, right parietal lobe infarctions and elevated anticardiolipin antibody titers is presented.
(17) After two weeks, her right-sided palsy and parkinsonism had disappeared, and neuropsychological deficits improved.
(18) Bilateral facial palsy occurred only in children with Lyme borreliosis.
(19) The children in the 1966 cohort were followed until the age of 14 and the incidences of cerebral palsy (CP) and mental retardation (IQ less than 71) were 3.2 times higher among the unwanted children than among the wanted ones.
(20) At 47-year-old right peripheral facial nerve palsy developed transiently with interstitial keratitis and episcleritis of the both eyes.
Pansy
Definition:
(n.) A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was made of the effects of pH and protic and aprotic solvents on the spectral properties of Renilla (sea pansy) luciferin and a number of its analogs.
(2) The system of a related anthozoan coelenterate, the sea pansy Renilla reniformis, however, is oxygen dependent, requiring two organic components, luciferin and luciferase.
(3) The oxidation of luciferin catalyzed by sea pansy luciferase results in the emission of light.
(4) Antho-RFamide (pGlu-Gly-Arg-Phe-amide), a neuropeptide recently isolated from the sea pansy Renilla köllikeri induced sustained (tonic) contractions in the rachis and peduncle of the colony, and in the individual autozooid polyps.
(5) Special kinds of bioluminescent reactions are also of considerable interest, as for instance the relationship between "active sulphate" and PAP, which participate in the formation of light in the sea pansy (Renilla reniformis).
(6) This peptide is a neuropeptide and constitutes a peptide family together with less than Glu-Leu-Leu-Gly-Gly-Arg-Phe-NH2 (Pol-RFamide I), the first neuropeptide isolated from Polyorchis, and less than Glu-Gly-Arg-Phe-NH2 (Antho-RFamide), a neuropeptide isolated from sea anemones and sea pansies.
(7) Initially, Warren lived with his mother and her new partner, but his stepfather never hid his hatred, calling him "a pansy" because he wore glasses and played the piano, and his mother didn't intervene to protect her son.
(8) This product is structurally identical among the different classes of coelenterates: Hydrozoa (the jellyfish, Aequorea), Anthozoa (the sea cactus, Cavernularia; sea pansy, Renilla; and sea pen, Leioptilus), and very likely also the Scyphozoa (the jellyfish, Pelagia).
(9) But someone who lives or works here has put a couple of drooping geraniums on a first-floor windowsill, a touchingly modest, personal attempt at home-making, more human in scale than all the tulips, hyacinths and pansies planted in vast quantities in the gardens along the road, which have been landscaped into luxury-hotel-style anonymity.
(10) George Eighmey, of Compassion and Choice, the body that originally fought for the law and now helps people towards decisions in dying, told me of a woman who had had a double mastectomy and made a display of her three or four dozen bras on a clothesline, and of a man who had had bladder trouble who filled a row of potties with petunias and pansies - all part of trying to make illness and even death more homely, more bearable.
(11) The pansies were in their beds, the roses on their trellis.
(12) Rachel Lauberts, one of the Boston Greenscapers, said they had just reworked the riverside and planted their winter pansies for the Britain in Bloom competition.
(13) A fine structure study of the anthocodium of the sea pansy, Renilla mülleri, was undertaken.
(14) On a dull March afternoon, a riot of municipal planting is in flower: forsythia, fuchsia, daffodils, croci, and pansies.
(15) I have never known anyone,” Crankshaw declared, “who flaunted his homosexuality so openly,” and he noted that Burgess’s live-in boyfriend, “a young factory mechanic who plays the concertina beautifully”, was “intelligent, unsqualid, and pleasant in a pansy sort of way”.