The word 'palsy' is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to describe a medical condition, such as cerebral palsy, which is a condition caused by damage to the brain that affects a person's control of movement and posture. An example sentence would be: "She experienced a stroke which caused her to develop palsy in her left arm."
As the father of two children and a grandfather of four, I can imagine nothing more heartbreaking than having a child with severe cerebral palsy.
Disabled people are left without a life-line to specialist medical care: doctors have asked for a young woman with cerebral palsy to be removed from a camp and sent to the Australian mainland.
Born with cerebral palsy, Freney has demonstrated exceptional courage and spirit, and has also become involved in the broader community, working as a motivation speaker for Swimming Australia.
The group's performance, against a backdrop that included the Union flag, the Olympic rings and the Queen's profile, saw them beat Carroll, a favourite, who has cerebral palsy and whose routine poked fun at BGT's BBC rival The Voice, including judge Tom Jones.
A master's graduate from Warwick, she has cerebral palsy.
As heartbreaking as Enock's situation was, other children with cerebral palsy do not receive any care at all.
When Sophie Christiansen met Enock, a 12-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, in a convent school in northern Rwanda last month, the no-nonsense Paralympic gold medallist was shocked by his situation.
The mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was caring for her seven-year-old daughter, who suffers from cerebral palsy, when the incident happened at a London hospital in December 2013.
I knew this boy could walk but he was just sitting, with nothing Sophie Christiansen Christiansen, an equestrian who was born with cerebral palsy and has won five Paralympic gold medals for Britain, travelled to Rwanda with Chance for Childhood, a UK-based charity that works to get vulnerable children, including those who are deaf or have communications difficulties, into schools.
Chemistry teacher Walter White - played by Malcolm in the Middle's Brian Cranston - is pushed to provide for his family after his death because his teenage son suffers from cerebral palsy.
A young woman with cerebral palsy resulting in severe physical disability is wheelchair bound in one of the island compounds.
