What's the difference between palsy and paralyse?

Palsy


Definition:

  • (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.

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.

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