The word 'paralytic' is a correct and usable term in written English.
It is an adjective that describes a condition of paralysis or severe weakness and lack of movement in a part of the body. One example of using 'paralytic' in a sentence is: "The accident left her paralytic from the waist down, unable to walk." This sentence indicates that the person's legs or lower body has been paralyzed and they are unable to move or feel sensation in that area.
With a 33-bill "tool-kit" to cut local spending on his summer agenda, he will find shrewd compromising, as on the property tax, far more appealing than a paralytic tug-of-war.
By last week, when federal health officials finally put the programme out of its misery, fewer than 40m people had been vaccinated.The programme was stopped (with the approval of President Ford, who had authorised it in the first place) after an outbreak of a paralytic disease known as the Guillain-Barre syndrore or "French polio".
In the old East Germany, officials had a list of terms to describe Britons: "paralytic sycophants, effete betrayers of humanity, carrion-eating servile imitators, arch-cowards and collaborators".
As a visiting district medical officer in northern Mozambique in the early 1980s, he received a note from a remote clinic about women and children infected by an unknown paralytic disease.
Kentucky, like most of the states, uses a three-drug cocktail to execute someone: an anaesthetic, a paralytic, and then a heart-stopper.
The central question for the justices is whether midazolam is up to the task of knocking out a criminal before the two other drugs—a paralytic to quiet the body and potassium chloride to stop the heart are injected.
Before the vaccine was known, more than 20,000 cases of paralytic disease occurred in the United States alone every year.
Inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) is used for immunodeficient or immunosuppressed patients and for the primary immunization of adults because of their greater susceptibility to paralytic disease.
Nonbacterial toxins in seafood include scombrotoxin (histamine) in spoiled fish, which can result in a severe allergic reaction when eaten; dinoflagellates (microscopic algae), associated with the so-called red tide, which can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning when consumed; and ciguatera, found in certain warm-water reef fish.(See also fish poisoning; shellfish poisoning).
During an epidemic of 1,031 cases in Sweden in 1905, Ivar Wickman recognized that patients with nonparalytic disease could spread the virus, and during an epidemic of 3,840 cases in 1911, Carl Kling and colleagues in Stockholm recovered the virus from healthy carriers as well as paralytic patients.
At its peak incidence in the United States, in 1952, approximately 21,000 cases of paralytic polio (a rate of 13.6 cases per 100,000 population) were recorded.
