Author: Glossary
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Posticus paralysis
Paralysis of the posterior cricothyroid muscles.
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Ocular paralysis
Paralysis of the extraocular and intraocular muscles. Paralysis affecting the muscles controlling eye movement, the optic nerve, or the ciliary muscle within the eye.
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Nuclear paralysis
Paralysis caused by lesion of nuclei in the central nervous system.
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Muscular paralysis
Loss of the capacity of muscles to contract. It may be due to a structural or functional disorder in the muscle at the myoneural junction, in efferent nerve fibers, in cell bodies of nuclei of origin of the brain or of the gray matter of the spinal cord, in conducting pathways of the brain or…
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Local paralysis
Paralysis of a single muscle or one group of muscles.
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Leaden paralysis
Extreme fatigue, a symptom of atypical depression.
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Laryngeal paralysis
Loss of vocal fold mobility. Common causes include surgical trauma to the recurrent laryngeal nerve or invasion of the nerve by a tumor.
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Landry’s paralysis
Flaccid paralysis that begins in the lower extremities and rapidly ascends to the trunk. Sudden onset of ascending paralysis. Certain instances stem from polyneuritis, some from poliomyelitis, and others have an unidentified cause.
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Jamaica ginger paralysis
Paralysis due to polyneuropathy that affects the muscles of the distal portions of the limbs. It is caused by drinking Jamaica ginger, an alcoholic beverage containing the toxin triorthocresylphosphate.
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Incomplete paralysis
Partial paralysis of the body or a part.