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wasting palsy

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palsy /pal·sy/ (pawl´ze) paralysis.
Bell's palsy  unilateral facial paralysis of sudden onset due to a lesion of the facial nerve, resulting in characteristic facial distortion.
cerebral palsy  any of a group of persisting qualitative motor disorders appearing in young children, resulting from brain damage caused by birth trauma or intrauterine pathology.
Erb's palsy , Erb-Duchenne palsy Erb-Duchenne paralysis.
facial palsy  Bell's p.
progressive bulbar palsy  chronic, progressive, generally fatal paralysis and atrophy of the muscles of the lips, tongue, mouth, pharynx, and larynx due to lesions of the motor nuclei of the lower brain stem, usually occurring in late adult years.
wasting palsy  spinal muscular atrophy.

wasting palsy.


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