To insist upon keeping a paretic all his lifetime in such an institution is highly irrational, to say the least. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
On October 22d, he complained of numbness in the left leg, which gradually increased, the leg at the same time becoming paretic, so that the patient required the aid of a cane for ordinary locomotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
Why it is that one paretic greets us with the exalted mien of his grandiose delirium, while another spreads about him the gloom of a depressive delirium -- the changes in the pyramidal cells do not explain. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference
Another general paretic promised to his physician such gifts as an ivory vest with diamond buttons, boasted of his great strength while scarcely able to walk alone, and declared he was a celebrated vocalist, while his lips and tongue were so tremulous he could scarcely articulate. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
She nursed an old father in it, a bedridden mother, a paretic brother, when she should have been having children. From Wordnik.com. [The Confession] Reference
(Any one previously unnamed of the whole layout of M. Dumas, excepting only a paretic volume entitled "The Conspirators."). From Wordnik.com. [The Delicious Vice] Reference
This paretic fatuity now had possession of James; in imagination he was crowning and draping himself with multi-millions, power and fame. From Wordnik.com. [The Cost] Reference
Kenyon GP, Hurt CP, McIntosh GC, Hoemberg V (2002) Kinematic optimization of spatiotemporal patterns in paretic arm training with stroke patients. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Vibratory stimulation combined with a substantial effort was shown to elicit movement in neuromuscular patient who were unable to contract their paretic muscles28. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Gov't advised not to sell oil power plants yet] Reference
Alan would never be an irritated, jealous, paretic old man, nor would he see "this woman" grow stern with repression and ache, and loneliness of heart and spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Bloweth] Reference
I don't suppose you've brought along any hair tonic or rolled gold watch-chains, or similar law-defying swindles that you could sell on the plaza to the pikers of the paretic populace, have you? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Grafter] Reference
Now it was precisely the cases with autopsychic delusions, as well as with profound disorder of personality in general, that showed the brunt of the destructive paretic process in the frontal region. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
Of course, a lesion somewhere outside the brain is not unlikely to be projected through the diseased brain, and somatic delusions in the paretic are rather likely to represent something in the viscera. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
In Wall Street there is a fatuity which, always epidemic among the small fry, infects wise and foolish, great and small, whenever a paretic dream of an enormous haul at a single cast of the net happens to come true. From Wordnik.com. [The Cost] Reference
In these cases there is a bilateral paralysis of the adductor muscles, so that the cords do not approximate on attempted phonation; or the internal tensors may be paretic, leaving an elliptical space between the cords on attempted phonation. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
"Destiny is stronger than the paretic councils of little inbred kings. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighted Match] Reference
He shifted his weight onto his paretic left foot. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Stiff-necked paretic Mengele. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference
I am a paretic before I’ve come of age.’. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
Searchlight, depends on the life of a paretic. ". From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
Defective degenerate bed-wetting bowel-voiding self-polluting paretic mono-dypso - maniacal hereditary mental weaklings. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference
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