palsy

(pawl'zl). Paralysis. Bell's p., facial paralysis, birth-p., obstetrical paralysis, paralysis, hemiplegia or diplegia, due to cerebral hemorrhage occurring at birth or to a disease of intrauterine life, bulbar p., glo olabiolaryngeal paralysis creeping p., progre ive muscular atrophy, crutch p., paralysis of the arm caused by the pre ure of the cro piece of a crutch. lead p., paralysis of the extensor muscles of the wrist occurring in poisoning by lead; wrist drop. night p., waking numbne .* printer's p., a neuritis, due to chronic antimonial poisoning, affecting chiefly the ulnar side of the forearm and hand, scriv'ener's p., writer's cramp, shaking p., paralysis agitans. wasting p., progre ive muscular atrophy.