PALSY


Meaning of PALSY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

cerebral palsy

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

cerebral

Sam is 6 and has cerebral palsy .

Craig, 21 months, suffers from cerebral palsy .

She suffers from cerebral palsy and because she could not communicate, doctors at first believed she might be mentally retarded.

He now has severe cerebral palsy , is unable to roll over, sit or crawl.

Sheng has cerebral palsy and is unable to walk.

One is a little girl crippled by cerebral palsy .

One seven year-old boy, a cerebral palsy sufferer, was anxious to make a speech.

■ VERB

suffer

Craig, 21 months, suffers from cerebral palsy .

She suffers from cerebral palsy and because she could not communicate, doctors at first believed she might be mentally retarded.

For the past decade, I have been the parent of a child who suffers from cerebral palsy .

With a mental age of six months, they suffered cerebral palsy from birth and were both wheelchair-bound.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Andrew was born with cerebral palsy , and suffers a form of blindness.

Doctors thought she had a mild case of cerebral palsy .

First comes a diagnosis of cerebral palsy , a label that seems right until other puzzling symptoms appear.

It does have different characteristics from other more fixed medical conditions, such as cerebral palsy .

She suffers from cerebral palsy and because she could not communicate, doctors at first believed she might be mentally retarded.

The medical diagnosis was cerebral palsy .

They surmised he had shoulder palsy or a complication from a long-hidden ailment contracted in the war.

Tooth-ache, tragedy and top notes share a mask of facial palsy in this alliterative world.

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