Tom has cerebral palsy.
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Palsy
//ˈpɔːlzi//
Synonyms for "palsy" (90 found)
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3 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 25 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- شَلَل noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
- كَسَح noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Bulgarian
1 entries- парализа noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 癱瘓 /瘫痪 noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
- 麻痺 /麻痹 noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Czech
1 entries- obrna noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Danish
1 entries- lammelse noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Dutch
1 entries- verlamming noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Faroese
2 entries- lammilsi noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
- lamningur noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Finnish
2 entries- halvaus noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
- pareesi noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
French
1 entries- paralysie noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Galician
2 entries- parálise noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
- perlesía noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
German
1 entries- Lähmung noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Greek
1 entries- παράλυση noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Hungarian
4 entries- bénultság noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
- bénulás noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
- guta noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
- gutaütés noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Icelandic
1 entries- lömun noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Italian
1 entries- paralisi noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Macedonian
1 entries- парали́за noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Manx
2 entries- neulheiltys noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
- çhingys neulheiltagh noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Norwegian
1 entries- paralyse noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Polish
3 entries- bezwład noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
- paraliż noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
- porażenie noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Romanian
2 entries- paralizie noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
- pareză noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Russian
1 entries- парали́ч noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Slovak
1 entries- obrna noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Spanish
1 entries- perlesía noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Telugu
1 entries- పక్షవాతము noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Turkish
2 entries- felç noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
- inme noun (complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
My dad has recently got a cerebral palsy.
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My dad has recently been diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
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Yet hist! faint eerie tones are sometimes heard — which blanch the cheek and palsy all the limbs — like to the moaning of departed souls!
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