semiparalyzed

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semiparalyzed (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of semi-paralyzed
    • 1913, George Eugene Pettey, The Narcotic Drug Diseases and Allied Ailments, page 394:
      The restricted intestinal motion, the semiparalyzed condition of that tube, does not admit of the ready downward passage of the stomach contents.
    • 2009, Mark R. Cohen, Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt, page 171:
      We met his wife, Umm al-maflūj, "mother of the semiparalyzed" (their child was also afflicted), collecting their rations.
    • 2015, Mark Mossman, Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing, page 146:
      The vampire's body is semiparalyzed; the vampire's body is undead; the vampire's body is disabled.