different between palsy vs paraplegia

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English palesie, from Anglo-Norman paralisie, parleisie et al., from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (parálusis, “palsy”), from ??????? (paralú?, “to disable on one side”), from ????- (para-, “beside”) + ??? (lú?, “loosen”). Doublet of paralysis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??lzi/

Noun

palsy (countable and uncountable, plural palsies)

1. (pathology) Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
   • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     The palsie plagues my pulses
     when I prigg yo?: piggs or pullen
     your culuers take, or matchles make
     your Chanticleare or sullen

   Synonym: paralysis

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Verb

palsy (third-person singular simple present palsies, present participle palsying, simple past and past participle palsied)

1. To paralyse, either completely or partially.
   • 1831, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, To The Public [1]

     In the month of August, I issued proposals for publishing "THE LIBERATOR" in Washington city; but the enterprise, though hailed in different sections of the country, was palsied by public indifference.

   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 2, chapter 9

     Its streets were blocked up with snow - the few passengers seemed palsied with snow, and frozen by the ungenial visitation of winter.

Etymology 2

From pals +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pælzi/

Adjective

palsy (comparative more palsy, superlative most palsy)

1. (colloquial) Chummy, friendly.

Further reading

• palsy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• palsy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• palsy at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• plays, splay, spyal

English

Etymology

From New Latin paraplegia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (parapl?gí?), Ionic Greek for ?????????? (parapl?xía, “paralysis on one side”), from ?????????????? (parapl?ssesthai, “to be stricken on one side”), active ???????????? (parapl?ssein, “to strike on one side”), from ???? (pará, “beside”) + ???????? (pl?ssein, “to strike”).

Noun

paraplegia (countable and uncountable, plural paraplegias)

1. (pathology) A condition where the lower half of a patient's body is paralyzed and cannot move.

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Translations

Further reading

• paraplegia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• paraplegia in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• paraplegia at OneLook Dictionary Search

Esperanto

Etymology

From paraplegio (“paraplegia”) +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paraple??ia/
• Hyphenation: pa?ra?ple?gi?a
• Rhymes: -ia

Adjective

paraplegia (accusative singular paraplegian, plural paraplegiaj, accusative plural paraplegiajn)

1. of or related to paraplegia, paraplegic
2. (of a, person) having paraplegia, paraplegic

Related terms

• paraplegiulo (“someone with paraplegia, a paraplegic”)

Interlingua

Noun

paraplegia (uncountable)

1. paraplegia

Italian

Noun

paraplegia f (plural paraplegie)

1. (pathology) paraplegia

Derived terms

• paraplegico

Portuguese

Noun

paraplegia f (plural paraplegias)

1. (pathology) paraplegia (condition of being paralysed from the waist down)

Derived terms

• paraplégico