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paralytic

pe ruh li tik

  • n  a person suffering from paralysis
  • a  relating to or of the nature of paralysis
    paralytic symptoms
  • s  affected with paralysis

  • With polio on the rise and proportionately more paralytic cases in 1959 than in any year since vaccinations became general, the National Foundation determined to nail down the .
  • This is a presidency that has wobbled between those two poles overweening arrogance and paralytic incompetence.
  • Among 1962's relatively few cases of paralytic poliomyelitis (fewer than 450 to date, with the total not expected to exceed 700 for the year) was a handful believed to have been .
News & Articles

  • Nova Scotia Coastline Closed to Shellfish Harvesting
    DARTMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA--(Marketwired - June 26, 2013) - The Regional Director-General of the Maritimes Region, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) advises effective immediately (June 25, 2013) and until further notice that the following areas are closed to the harvesting of any bi-valve molluscs (clams, mussels, oysters and scallops) due to high counts of PSP (Paralytic Shellfish Poison):
    June 26, 2013 - Marketwire
Quotes

  • Sarah Harding in Life Style Extra
    I am now convinced that this case will generate debate not only about the constitutionality of the three-drug protocol, and specifically about the justification for the use of the paralytic agent, pancuronium bromide, but also about the... John Paul Stevens http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Stevens&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGTCC74z_WMZ-r3o02FeHXkQyZApQ International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/16/america/Scotus-Lethal-Injection.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHOrQUCuZgRSv4aPSGci1lhgpMjag Apr 16, 2008 72169 96533 paralytic Sarah said: Jack's like my little brother! I called him when I saw that in the paper and said to him, 'Apparently, I snogged you. I know I was drunk - verging on paralytic - but did we do something we shouldn't have done?'
  • Sharleen Spiteri in Glasgow Daily Record
    Sharleen said: "Most people are absolutely paralytic before they get to their table but that's our ploy, to get them to spend more money."

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