Paralyze

Recent Examples on the Web Covid repression has paralyzed most filmmakers, but Rodrigues’s rude artistry goes for unpredictable political provocation. — Armond White, National Review, 31 May 2023 Last year 862 children in 26 countries were paralyzed by viruses from oral polio vaccine. — Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 May 2023 But in Libya, said El Gomati, Wagner’s intervention helped split and paralyze the country. — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2023 Cynthia Lopez, 34, and Salvador Murillo, 41, each face multiple assault charges for the incident that left Nicholas Carrillo paralyzed from the waist down, according to Los Angeles County Dist. — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023 He has been paralyzed from the neck down since a motorcycle accident in 1999. — Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023 The study team of geneticists, molecular biologists, biochemists and fungal biologists had previously found that oyster mushrooms exude an unidentified toxin that somehow paralyzes the worms within minutes and causes calcium to flow into their cells, killing them. — Susan Cosier, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2023 The bullet went through his abdominal wall and passed into his spine, paralyzing him from the waist down. — Joao Silva Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023 After revealing that his face was partially paralyzed after being diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome last June, the Grammy Award winner, 29, showed off the mobility in his face via an Instagram Story poste...

AP Two of the drugs Florida will use to kill him are in short supply across the nation. The constant dearth of lethal injection drugs to replace expired supplies has many states scrambling to find them, substituting their usual cocktail with drugs such as For subscribers: Several years ago, pharmaceutical companies, especially those in Europe where opposition to the death penalty is widespread, began to learn that the drugs are ending lives, not saving them. Every European Union country opposes the death penalty, so they enacted export laws barring the drugs going to the United States for executions. Big Pharma in the U.S. also isn't too pleased with the ethics or the possible damage to their reputations by supplying drugs to execute people. In 2016, Pfizer was the last big drug company to block its products from exacting the death penalty. So what's an executioner to do? Many states have gone clandestine — getting them from overseas manufacturers illicitly or going to some shady compounding pharmacies. Compounded drugs So how is Florida stocking up? No way to know. The legislature made it secret in 2022. What can go wrong in lethal injection executions? When it comes to the rate of botched executions, lethal injections far outrank other methods, including hanging, according to Austin Sarat, an Amherst College professor of jurisprudence and author of "Botched Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty. Most of the execution problems center on the sedatives....

/ˈpɛrəlaɪz/ Other forms: paralyzed; paralyzing; paralyzes Use the verb paralyze to describe something that makes it impossible to move or function, like a snowstorm that threatens to paralyze a city. Accent the first syllable in paralyze: "PA-ruh-lies." Until 1805, the only way to paralyze someone was physically — the word was used to indicate that a person had lost the ability to move their body, often as a result of an accident of illness. More recently, the definition has widened to include figurative uses like being "paralyzed by fear." It doesn't mean you are literally immobilized — just that you are so scared, it feels that way.

• Placement of a breathing tube into the windpipe • Abdominal surgery • Throat surgery • Some surgeries in the chest affecting the heart and/or lungs • Spine surgery • Brain surgery • Many types of orthopedic (bone) surgery • Intensive care for respiratory distress • Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest Because surgery uses sharp instruments and affects delicate areas of the body, even involuntary movements, such as a sneeze or a small muscle twitch, could cause a serious injury. For this reason, muscle movement has to be medically suppressed during surgery, with the exception of the muscle movement that's necessary for breathing. Normally, nerves in the body activate muscles by releasing the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which binds to muscle cells, blocking them. When the neurotransmitter binding sites are blocked, the muscles completely relax and can't move until the medication wears off or is medically reversed. These drugs can affect people differently. For example, they may take longer to work in adults over age 80, or their action can last longer for people who have kidney or liver disease. After surgery, your healthcare providers will monitor you in the recovery area to determine whether you are having any side effects as the medication wears off. If you develop any side effects, treatment would be initiated right away. This can include interventions such as oxygen or medication for your heart or lungs. Generally, paralytic drugs are administered for the ...