palsy

For six-and-a-half years, Lisa Hayden-Johnson claimed Matthew had a long list of illnesses including diabetes, food allergies, cerebral palsy and cystic fibrosis, but years later it emerged she had made it all up.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

He said his son has cerebral palsy and a seizure disorder, and relies on assistance to live with dignity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

While cerebral palsy is not degenerative, as Vicky ages she experiences increased stiffness, fatigue and secondary health challenges.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

My brother, who has cerebral palsy and is developmentally disabled, is two years older than I am.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 2026

She scoop a egg up and near bout drop it cause she getting the palsy.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

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

He had had a fright, had been smitten by that sudden gripe of fear which palsies limbs and freezes blood, which the ancients called the Stroke of Pan, and we still call Panic after them.

From Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Henry Hewlett

The part played by the palsies of children in the surgical affections of the extremities necessitates a short description of their more important features.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

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

He would tease her by telling her just how, with her and her apples gone, all the gods were frail and withered—drooling, palsied, quivering hulks, slow of thought and crippled in mind and body.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

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

That palsying thought, indeed, took entire possession of my soul.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 by Edgar Allan Poe

The toil that outstays nature hath A palsying power, a chilling force Which freezes youth at its fresh source.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

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