Paralysis

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Contents

Used for

gastroparesis, quadriplegia, tetraplegia

Broader Terms

central nervous system disorder

Narrower Terms

neurogenic urinary bladder disorder, paraplegia, spastic paralysis

Related Terms

neuromuscular disorder

Scope Note

severe loss or impairment of motor function in part due to lesion of the neural or muscular mechanism.

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

  • com Click to order from Amazon sleep paralysis Sleep paralysis is a condition that occurs in the state just before dropping off to sleep (the hypnagogic state) or just before fully awakening from sleep (the hypnopompic state).
  • wood tick, Lone Star tick What is Tick Paralysis? Tick Paralysis is caused by over 40 species of ticks worldwide (5 in North America, including the deer tick) and can occur in almost any region where ticks are found.
  • Although elderly rats are more commonly afflicted with respiratory illness and tumors (usually mammary), the incidence of paralysis is also quite high.
  • Jones, MD February 27, 1992 Bilateral abductor vocal cord paralysis is a distressing condition, often life-threatening, and not infrequently a direct cause of asphyxial death.
  • All in all, the newly accumulated evidence suggests that skeptics may even wish to consider launching a public education campaign to explain more broadly what sleep paralysis is and how it happens.

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