palsy

Despite a round of antivirals, the flare turned into the painful condition Bell’s palsy, a complication that causes muscle weakness and drooping, often in one side of the face.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

Mitte, who had cerebral palsy, drew on his own experience for his role in the Emmy-winning drama series.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

One, who has cerebral palsy, took five months to complete the exam.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Mitte, who, like his character Walter “Flynn” White Jr., had cerebral palsy, played an integral supporting role on the AMC series, which premiered in 2008 and lasted five seasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The medical personnel were trained to handle drug overdoses and minor injuries, and knew very little about cerebral palsy.

From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar

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

The baths of Aix are very celebrated, and the town is much visited by valetudinarians: they are chiefly recommended in scorbutic humours, colds, rheumatisms, palsies, and consumptions.

From Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by Lt-Col. Pinkney

His hands fell, with inert palsies, to his sides.

From The Flaw in the Sapphire by Charles M. Snyder

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

Five years on from the Wall Street crash, the world economy is still palsied.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2013

And they were completely unmoved by his angry contempt: “You, standing palsied at the gate of death and yet afraid to die!”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

Why should every nerve quiver as she sat there mute with a palsying fear?

From Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood

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

But to such a one uncertainty is like a shock to the body, palsying the form and changing a strong arm into a nerveless, useless stick of bone and tissue.

From The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

Old age was pressing inexorably upon him, palsying his hands on its rack, tripping his feet in its helpless mazes.

From A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White