I. adjective
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Almost as if, having proclaimed himself paralytic in court, he was setting about proving it over and over again.
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Approximately 2 to 5 percent of children and up to 30 percent of adults with paralytic polio die.
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Before it was over, 204 so-called vaccine-associated cases occurred, about three-fourths of which were paralytic .
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Difficulty swallowing from the pain and paralytic weakness.
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Learning how few people actually had paralytic polio offered no comfort to me.
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Shortly afterwards a serious paralytic illness, from which he never fully recovered, forced his retirement from active public life.
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The men used to go paralytic and put windows in.
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The vaccine brought a drastic drop-80 percent-in paralytic polio cases by 1957.
II. noun
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Shy and reserved around men, he was a paralytic near women.