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🧑‍🦽 A paralyzed person 🦵 Partly paralyzed
paretic

paretic

9.9
Having partial paralysis that makes movement weak
  • adjective
  • /pəˈrɛtɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : parético
  • One therapist was responsible for this therapy, supervising the treatment and helping intermittently to stabilize the paretic knee.
  • paretic or paralyzed

Examples

  • After the stroke, she struggled to regain full movement in her paretic arm.

  • A percutaneous electrode was designed for placement beneath the skin at the motor point of seven paralyzed or paretic muscles in the lower limb.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Furthermore, she observed that the patient mainly took advantage of the machine support during the swing phase of the paretic limb.

    Academic text (2000)

  • A 26-gauge needle connected to a stimulator was used in an iterative procedure to locate the motor point of a paretic or paralyzed muscle.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Employing a medical term, Williams concludes: "confine them, Eliot and his admirers, in hell for their paretic, paralyzed assumption that there is no alternative but their own groove."

    Academic text (2007)

  • The paretic side of his body showed significant weakness during therapy.

  • Doctors recommended exercises to help strengthen the paretic muscles in his leg.

Synonyms

palsied
vsparetic
1 9.9

Having muscles that shake or cannot move

describes a partial weakness in voluntary movement rather than severe paralysis

Antonyms

healthy
695 1.0

In good body and mind condition without sickness or injury

How Paralyzed

paralyzed
  • US
1 4.2
paretic
  • Specialized
9.9
weak
524 1.0
unaffected
3 3.9

Surface Forms

paretic positive

Morphology

paretic = paresis (transparent) = paresis + ic

Standard adjectival formation from the noun 'paresis' (meaning 'relating to partial paralysis'), so meaning is directly derived from the base medical term.

Etymology

Paretic comes from the medical word paresis, meaning 'partial loss of movement'. So when a doctor calls a muscle or limb paretic, they mean it is 'partly weak' or 'partly paralyzed' rather than completely unable to move.