paralytic

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Early symptoms of paralytic shellfish poisoning include tingling of the lips and tongue that could start anywhere from a few minutes to hours after eating toxic shellfish.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

“Every paralytic polio case means there are hundreds of children who are silently affected by poliovirus and are potentially carrying and spreading it throughout their communities,” she added.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2024

"We find paralytic shellfish toxins in our shellfish pretty much year-round at this point."

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2024

There’s all sorts of interpretations about what actually happens after the paralytic.

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2024

I said I knew a man in Paris—a very wealthy paralytic, I said—who would pay M. Yoshoto any price at all for the picture.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger