Akademik

Landry's paralysis

noun

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

• Syn: ↑Guillain-Barre syndrome, ↑infectious polyneuritis

• Hypernyms: ↑polyneuritis, ↑multiple neuritis

* * *

\\ˈlandrēz-\ noun

Usage: usually capitalized L

Etymology: after Jean Baptiste Landry died 1865 French physician

: motor paralysis beginning in the legs and rapidly extending to the trunk and arms and finally to the muscles of respiration : acute ascending paralysis

Useful english dictionary. 2012.