The most compelling ancient case is pictured on an Egyptian stele dating from the 18th dynasty (1580 1350 BCE) showing an adult with a withered, flaccid leg and crutch; the image is strikingly similar to a modern image of a young man with paralytic poliomyelitis (29).
Mackinnon had a flaccid bladder belly, crab legs, a snoose-stained beard, pig-mad red eyes, red sprouts of dandered hair, wormish lips, pitchy teeth, breath that knocked you sideways, and nose hairs that dripped snot on and spoiled Wolfred's perfectly inked numbers.
His once active legs were flaccid and twisted – rendered useless by polio.
Her arms hit out at nothing, and her legs are oddly flaccid.
In peripheral nerve damage muscle tone is reduced -- that is, your legs will be flaccid.
At admission to the hospital, his right leg was completely flaccid, and the left was paretic.
He was an odd sight, with his pole-thin legs and a small, flaccid belly, like an otherwise svelte woman who has had a baby and not bothered to tone her abdomen.
Not a tattered copy of Fiesta found behind a Portakabin, as many of us remember as the height of 1970s childhood excitement, with its pages of exposed nipples, spread legs and the occasional flaccid penis lolling about in the One For the Ladies section.
On day 30, the patient was transferred for rehabilitation with flaccid, areflexic paralysis in the right leg and variable weakness and diminished reflexes in all other limbs.
Neurologic examination showed normal cognition, asymmetric flaccid paralysis of the left arm and leg with absent reflexes, hyporeflexic weakness of the right arm and leg, and weakness of bulbar muscles (Table 2).
There were periods during which she would turn to the wall and stare for hours on end, while her legs and arms became rigid and then flaccid.
