pressure palsy
Medicine
noun
Paralysis of part of the body caused by compression of a nerve or nerve trunk; an instance of this.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in The Lancet.
- staying power
- stay-in strike
- Stayman
- Stayman Winesap
- stay of execution
- stay on
- stay over
- stay put
- stay rod
- staysail
- stay someone's hand
- stay stitching
- stay the course (or distance)
- stay up
- stay well
- stay with
- Staël, Mme de
- St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
- St Barts
- St. Basil's Cathedral
- stbd.
- St Bernard
- St Bernard dog
- St Bernard Pass
- St Bridget