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单词 paraplectic
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paraplecticadj.

Forms: 1600s paraplectick, 1800s paraplectic.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek παραπληκτικός.
Etymology: < ancient Greek παραπληκτικός suffering from hemiplegia < παράπληκτος suffering from hemiplegia ( < (non-Attic) παραπλήσσειν (Attic παραπλήττειν ) to strike with palsy (see paraplegia n.) + -τος , suffix forming verbal adjectives) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare post-classical Latin paraplecticus (1743 or earlier). In Compounds after scientific Latin paraplecticus (1758 as a specific name). N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (pærăple·ktik) /pærəˈplɛktɪk/.
Obsolete. rare.
Suffering from paraplegia; = paraplegic adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > palsy or paralysis > types of
paraplectic1661
hemiplegiac1802
hemiplegic1822
paraplegic1822
hemiplegian1842
athetoid1875
apraxic1892
monoplegic1896
quadriplegic1897
athetotic1898
spastic1903
tetraplegic1911
quadriparetic1956
cerebral-palsied1961
Tasered1976
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 13 Those that are vertiginous, epileptick, apoplectick, paraplectick.
1769 B. Alexander tr. G. B. Morgagni Seats & Causes Dis. I. iii. 37 A certain victualler, who was..first made paraplectic, and then apoplectic.
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Paraplecticus, Paraplectus, stricken on one side; paralysed; frenzy stricken: paraplectic.

Compounds

paraplectic weevil n. Obsolete the European weevil Lixus paraplecticus, whose larvae feed on plants of the family Apiaceae ( Umbelliferae) that can be toxic to livestock, and were formerly blamed for the weakness or paralysis associated with eating such plants.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Curculionidae or genus Curculio > that causes horses to stagger
paraplectic weevil1813
1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 135 The larvæ of the Paraplectic Weevil inhabit the interior part of the stems of an umbelliferous plant, the phellandrium aquaticum.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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