Example Sentences

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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

Another ph�nomenon in palsies is, that when the limbs of one side are disabled, those of the other are in perpetual motion.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

All of the neuralgias, many of the neuroses, all of the neuritises and a certain number of so-called palsies and paralyses, were treated successfully by this means.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)