Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing paralysis.
- noun An agent or drug That paralyzes or induces paralysis. Alien, and Neurol., VI. 47. Also spelled
paralysant .
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The alkaloid, spirachin (a nerve paralyzant) has been found in the roots ....
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The alkaloid, spirachin (a nerve paralyzant) has been found in the roots ....
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The alkaloid, spirachin (a nerve paralyzant) has been found in the roots ....
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But later researches lead to the conclusion that the effect of alcoholic liquors is not properly that of a stimulant, but of a narcotic paralyzant, and that while it indeed quickens, it also really weakens the heart's action.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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As experiments conducted since that time show that it is not a cardiac stimulant, but a direct cardiac paralyzant, what excuse is there for using it as a medicine now?
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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In closing their report in regard to the action of different alcohols, they say that 'by their direct action on the cardiac tissue these drugs are clearly _paralyzant_, and that this appears to be the case from the outset, _no stage of increased force of contraction preceding_.'
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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"Sir Henry Thompson says: 'That alcohol is an anæsthetic and paralyzant is a fact too well established to be questioned or contradicted.'
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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We know from most conclusive experiments it is a direct _cardiac paralyzant_. "
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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