LANDRY'S PARALYSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Landry's paralysis mean? 

• LANDRY'S PARALYSIS (noun)
  The noun LANDRY'S PARALYSIS has 1 sense:

1. a form of peripheral polyneuritis characterized by pain and weakness and sometimes paralysis of the limbs; cause is unknown

  Familiarity information: LANDRY'S PARALYSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDRY'S PARALYSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A form of peripheral polyneuritis characterized by pain and weakness and sometimes paralysis of the limbs; cause is unknown

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

Guillain-Barre syndrome; infectious polyneuritis; Landry's paralysis

Hypernyms ("Landry's paralysis" is a kind of...):

multiple neuritis; polyneuritis (inflammation of many or all of the peripheral nerves (as in leprosy))