0 US spelling of paralyse --
1 to cause a person or animal to lose the ability to move or feel part of the body, or to cause someone or something to be unable to act or operate correctly: --
Consistent with this prediction, an impairment in the plasticity underlying orientation selectivity has been observed in kittens exposed to visual experience with their eyes paralyzed.
Accommodation was paralyzed with scopolamine hydrobromide, and the nictitating membrane retracted with phenylephrine hydrochloride.
One would therefore expect the child to be paralyzed, unable to choose, faced with an unlearnable grammar.
Yet they were not paralyzed by these constraints.
Thirteen patients had inhalational agents and were paralyzed and ventilated throughout.
Before placing the eye on the eye ring, the animal was paralyzed with a rapid intravenous infusion of pancuronium bromide (2 mg).
Even the solipsisms of postmodernism provide a useful limiting case of total and paralyzing skepticism against which one can address questions of practical epistemology.
How can we live when part of our body is paralyzed?
