palsy

Some mothers have been left with permanent damage to their bladder and bowels, while one said her daughter suffered a neonatal stroke due to the condition, leaving her with cerebral palsy.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

He said his son has cerebral palsy and a seizure disorder, and relies on assistance to live with dignity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Mr Hayayei, who had cerebral palsy, died at the scene.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

My brother, who has cerebral palsy and is developmentally disabled, is two years older than I am.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 2026

Notwithstanding the price was exorbitant for such hard accommodation, Dr. Trefusis nodded, which movement was imperceptible almost from the palsy of his chill, and we were admitted into the house.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

That fall, a friend told the patient about a clinic at New York University that specialized in facial palsies.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

Hiroshimans feel that The Bomb purged them of all war guilt; perhaps that is why Hiroshima is free of the paralysis that palsies most of the rest of the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the many symptoms associated with overexposure are blindness, insomnia, kidney failure, hearing loss, cancer, palsies, and convulsions.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

We old fellows have our palsies and apoplexies; and you, young fellows, your fevers and inflammations.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The diseases were, for the most part, of that sort which depends upon inaction and obstruction, as dropsies, palsies, and some tumours.

From Evidence of Christianity by William Paley

He struggled with palsied hands to shield his exposed body with a thin towel.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2021

In front of a billion or so viewers, Witz was palsied with pleasure.

From Time ● Mar. 3, 2014

On the spot, they decide to liberate Claude from the company of the palsied, demented, and wheelchair bound.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2013

Clutching its credit card in hands palsied with anticipation, Lost in Showbiz catches its breath long enough to advise: don't all subscribe at once, you'll crash their server!

From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2011

Faye Belle, palsied and gray-skinned, cannot remember her own age.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

That’s never happened before—hunting is a favorite pastime—and he sees the change in himself as just one more sign of the times’ palsying effect on the simplicity of the old ways.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019

What is there in our highly civilized life that escapes the palsying touch of Fashion?

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by George Sumner Weaver

And then he told them of Monmouth day,—of its exultant beginning, its strange changes and chances, its palsying despair, its victory snatched from defeat.

From Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Sara Beaumont Kennedy

The bold, the prompt, and the energetic saved themselves by immediate flight; those who lingered through love or avarice, supine indifference, or palsying fear, perished.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Richard Linthicum

That palsying thought, indeed, took entire possession of my soul.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 by Edgar Allan Poe