What does "paralytic" mean?

Paralytic: Affected with paralysis, or palsy. The cold, shaking, paralytic hand. Prior.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Inclined or tending to paralysis. Paralytic secretion (Physiol.), the fluid, generally thin and watery, secreted from a gland after section or paralysis of its nerves, as the pralytic saliva.
  2. 3.A person affected with paralysis.

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