How to Use paralytic in a Sentence

paralytic

1 of 2 adjective

• Second, the one case of paralytic polio may be the tip of a large iceberg.
  — Deblina Chakraborty, CNN, 15 Sep. 2022
• And Haddad wants to explore whether the use of a paralytic drug is necessary.
  — Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
• As if the great metropolis of New York were in paralytic shock.
  — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• The news came weeks after New York state reported the country’s first case of paralytic polio in about a decade.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• In one iteration of the course, the scientists added a paralytic agent to the bacteria, to test whether the worms would sniff out the tastier pile on their first try.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2023
• The paralytic drug was the second given before the execution team gave Otte a drug that stopped his heart.
  — Staff, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• As the virus hacked its way through the neural tissue of the spinal cord, a few of those infected were paralysed; this progression of the virus was known as paralytic polio.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 26 May 2020
• The strain of poliovirus behind the paralytic case in Rockland last summer was linked to viruses spreading in London and Israel at the time.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2023
• This comes as no surprise since last month a case of paralytic polio was confirmed in a resident in Rockland County -- just on the outskirts of the city.
  — Syra Madad, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
• Woodrow Wilson suffered a paralytic stroke in 1919 and the full details of his disability were kept from the public.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
• Between 2% and 10% of cases of paralytic polio are fatal, since the virus can destroy the nerves that control breathing.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2022
• This is not just in lower-income countries: the U.S. has recently reported a case of paralytic polio, and there is fear of an outbreak in the U. K.
  — Seth Berkley, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2022
• Less than 1% of polio cases are paralytic, according to the CDC.
  — Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2022
• The virus that causes paralytic polio has been found in New York City sewage samples, according to city and state health departments.
  — WSJ, 13 Aug. 2022
• To date this year there have been only eight cases of paralytic polio diagnosed, in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 25 May 2018
• Roughly 5-10% of patients who caught paralytic polio died, although this number was far higher in the days before widespread use of the iron lung.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 26 May 2020
• But health officials say Alaskans who self-harvest shellfish should still be aware of the risks of paralytic shellfish poisoning.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2022
• Over the next 30 hours, the report said, the man developed encephalopathy, brain damage, and paralytic ileus, or paralysis of the intestine.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2019
• Public health officials said the traces of poliovirus found in sewage samples from early June in Rockland County and greater Jerusalem were still too weak to cause paralytic polio.
  — Robin Fields, ProPublica, 29 July 2022
• Each case of paralytic polio is only the tip of the iceberg and represents often hundreds of additional cases that don’t present with symptoms or look a lot like the flu.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2022
• The blooms of toxic algae are linked to paralytic shellfish poisoning.
  — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2019
• For one thing, enteroviruses were already linked to paralytic illnesses—poliovirus is a type of enterovirus.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 July 2019
• Some of the campaigns have recently been re-started, but health workers need to vaccinate more than 90% of children in their efforts to eradicate the paralytic disease.
  — Maria Cheng, Star Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
• The hospital, originally founded to treat children with paralytic polio, is decked out in bright colors, artwork filled with crayons and fish tanks that look like scenes out of Finding Nemo.
  — Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2022
• And about 2 percent to 10 percent of people with paralytic polio will die because the paralysis will affect their ability to breathe.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 22 June 2022
• Of particular concern is enterovirus-D68, which in rare cases has been linked to a polio-like paralytic illness in children.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
• That means for the one case of paralytic polio to have arisen in New York—which was not linked to any international travel—hundreds of others were likely already infected.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2022
• But there are two culprits the technicians are on the lookout for: Pseudo-nitzschia, of course, and members of the genus Alexandrium, which produces the toxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 23 Dec. 2020
• Just one case has been confirmed — an unvaccinated man in his 20s who was diagnosed with paralytic polio in Rockland County in July.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2022
• Only three cases of paralytic polio caused by wild-type polio have been reported so far in 2023, from Afghanistan and Pakistan, the only two countries that have never managed to extinguish transmission of wild polio.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 May 2023

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paralytic

2 of 2 noun

• The second drug is a paralytic to halt breathing, and the third stops the heart.
  — Julie Turkewitz and Richard PÉrez-PeÑa, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2017
• But then the needle slipped out of the vein and dumped the paralytic and the potassium chloride into soft tissue.
  — Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
• Christ healing the paralytic, left, and Christ walking on water, right.
  — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 28 Feb. 2018
• That drug was followed by two more: vecuronium bromide, a paralytic, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2021
• Attorneys for the state and the former chief state medical officer who helped draw up the protocol last year said the paralytic is to ensure that Dozier’s breathing muscles stop.
  — Ken Ritter, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018
• Additional drugs called paralytics are often added to prevent the body from moving.
  — Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2020
• That drug was followed by vecuronium bromide, a paralytic, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2021
• Cisatracurium is a paralytic used in surgeries as a skeletal muscle relaxant.
  — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
• The three drugs are: midazolam, a sedative; vecuronium bromide, a paralytic; and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
  — Sean Murphy, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2021
• The etomidate is followed by rocuronium bromide, a paralytic, and finally, potassium acetate, which stops the heart.
  — Jason Dearen, chicagotribune.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• The etomidate was followed by rocuronium bromide, a paralytic, and finally, potassium acetate, which stops the heart.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2017
• These devious little specimens deliver a rapid one-two punch to their victims: first, an immobilizing paralytic to the abdomen, then a second sting into its neck that targets the roach brain.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2018
• Like other states with the death penalty, Tennessee makes lethal injection the default method, using a three-drug cocktail starting with a sedative called midazolam and followed by doses of a paralytic and a heart-stopping toxin.
  — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
• Oklahoma's protocol also continues to use a paralytic, which critics say is an unnecessary and dangerous aspect of the process that serves only to mask problems from public view.
  — Sophie Reardon, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2021
• The traditional three-drug cocktail used sodium thiopental as a sedative and vecuronium bromide or a similar compound as a paralytic.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 July 2019
• The state's lethal injection protocol uses a combination of the drugs midazolam as a sedative, vecuronium bromide as a paralytic, and potassium chloride to stop the heart.
  — Andy Rose and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 10 June 2022
• In another error, reported mere weeks after Vaught’s arrest, a hospital employee mixed up the same drugs as Vaught did — Versed, a sedative, and vecuronium, a dangerous paralytic.
  — Brett Kelman, CNN, 28 Apr. 2022
• Nevada’s first-of-its-kind execution protocol also calls for the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl to slow Dozier’s breathing and the muscle paralytic cisatracurium to prevent movement and stop his breathing.
  — Ken Ritter, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
• Nevada's first-of-its-kind execution protocol also calls for the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl to slow Dozier's breathing and the muscle paralytic cisatracurium to prevent movement and stop his breathing.
  — NBC News, 11 July 2018
• By the same logic, dosing prisoners with paralytics can also make executions less traumatic for witnesses.
  — Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 11 July 2018
• ADOC's current lethal injection protocol uses three drugs: midazolam, a sedative that is used in medical practice to reduce anxiety; rocuronium bromide, a paralytic; and potassium chloride, a chemical salt to stop the heart, according to the motion.
  — Kent Faulk, AL.com, 23 May 2017
• The paralytic drugs prevent the patient from involuntarily coughing during the process and showering the anesthesiologist with viral particles.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2020
• Almost immediately after receiving the sedative midazolam — the first of the three drugs administered, including vecuronium bromide, a paralytic, and potassium chloride to stop the heart — Grant began convulsing and vomiting.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
• Midazolam, a paralytic, was later used in problematic executions in Arkansas and Arizona.
  — Jackie Borchardt, cleveland.com, 18 July 2017
• Moscow traffic, always verging on paralytic, sometimes became an intolerable nightmare; road rage incidents multiplied.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2017
• The second drug is a paralytic to halt breathing, and the third stops the heart.
  — Julie Turkewitz and Richard PÉrez-PeÑa, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2017
• But then the needle slipped out of the vein and dumped the paralytic and the potassium chloride into soft tissue.
  — Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2021
• Christ healing the paralytic, left, and Christ walking on water, right.
  — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 28 Feb. 2018
• That drug was followed by two more: vecuronium bromide, a paralytic, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2021
• Attorneys for the state and the former chief state medical officer who helped draw up the protocol last year said the paralytic is to ensure that Dozier’s breathing muscles stop.
  — Ken Ritter, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018

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