Sentence examples for paralysis of limbs from inspiring English sources

ALS involves the progressive degeneration of spinal cord motor neurons, leading to paralysis of limbs and respiration.

When the cord is compressed, the dog can experience symptoms ranging in scope from mild back or neck pain to paralysis of limbs, loss of sensation, and loss of bladder or bowel control.

Yealland and Adrian (1917) reported clinical success particularly for functional disorders that were characterized by the 'absence or diminished activity of a normal function' (such as functional deafness, mutism, blindness and paralysis of limbs).

In the present study, if a participant was unable to respond to an item due to any sensory deficits (e.g., visual/hearing loss, paralysis of limbs), an extrapolated score was computed by multiplying the obtained score by 30, and dividing by the maximum obtainable score (the possible sum score for all the items that the participant attempted) [ 53].

Paralysis of limbs - Criteria: Loss of muscle functions to the whole of any two limbs resulting in permanent and irreversible symptoms.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by selective degeneration of motor neurons located in the spinal cord, brain stem, and motor cortex, resulting in progressive atrophy and paralysis of limb, bulbar, and respiratory muscles [ 1– 5].

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterised by the loss of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord causing progressive paralysis of limb and bulbar function and death due to respiratory failure within an average of 3 years from symptom onset.

Disease development was monitored daily, and the severity of clinical signs was scored based on a standard neurological scoring system for EAE as follows: 1, limp tail or waddling gait; 2, limp tail and ataxia; 2.5, single limb paresis and ataxia; 3, double limb paresis; 3.5, single limb paralysis and paresis of second limb; 4, full paralysis of two limbs; 4.5, moribund; and 5, dead.

Body weights and neurological deficits were determined daily according to the following scale: 0, no signs; 1, flaccid tail; 2, impairment of fighting reflex and/or loss muscle tone in hind limbs; 3, complete paralysis of hind limbs; 4, paraplegia; and 5, moribund state/death [ 19– 219.

Clinical onset of disease was defined as the beginning of paralysis of one limb (hind limb).

The signs of EAE were scored into eight categories: 0- no signs of clinical disease; 1- weakness in the tail; 2- paralyzed tail; 3- paresis and gait disturbance; 4- paralysis of one limb; 5- paralysis of two limbs; 6- two limbs paralyzed and paresis of a third limb, but the mouse still able to move forward; 7- quadriplegia, no mobility and moribund state; 8- dead.