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Drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle.

scattered throughout the brain and spinal cord. It is associated with complete or partial paralysis, a peculiar jerking tremor of the muscles, headache, and vertigo, and is usually fatal. Called also multiple, disseminated, or insular, sclerosis.

t in plants; also, a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis. [Obs.] Ray.

An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.

ct or process of whipping or stinging with nettles; -- sometimes used in the treatment of paralysis.

ervous disease by suddenly bending the hand back upon the forearm. -- Wrist drop (Med.), paralysis of the extensor muscles of the hand, affecting the hand so that when an attempt is made to hold it out in line with the forearm with the palm down, the hand drops. It is chiefly due to plumbism. Called also hand drop. -…