Usually means: Loss of voluntary muscle control.
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  1. paralysis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. paralysis: Merriam-Webster
  3. paralysis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. paralysis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. paralysis: Collins English Dictionary
  6. paralysis: Vocabulary.com
  7. Paralysis, paralysis: Wordnik
  8. paralysis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. paralysis: Wiktionary
  10. paralysis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. paralysis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. paralysis: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. paralysis: Dictionary.com
  14. paralysis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. paralysis: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Paralysis (disambiguation), Paralysis (novel), Paralysis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Paralysis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. paralysis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. paralysis: Rhymezone
  20. Paralysis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. paralysis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. paralysis: FreeDictionary.org
  23. paralysis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. paralysis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paralysis: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paralysis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. paralysis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Paralysis: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  5. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Paralysis: Merck Manuals
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  9. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  10. paralysis: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  11. paralysis: Medical dictionary
  12. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  13. Paralysis: Drug Medical Dictionary
  14. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Paralysis: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See paralyses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (pathology) The complete loss of voluntary control of part of a person's body, such as one or more limbs.
noun:  A state of being unable to act.

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