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And they are.

This city is totally paralyzed.

It's just a reality of anesthesia. The lungs can be paralyzed.

As a consequence of this dilemma, Socialist parties across Europe seem paralyzed.

Brazil is similarly paralyzed, partly because of its presidential election campaign, which is currently in full swing and will conclude only at the end of the year, and partly because of recent diplomatic setbacks.

When I looked at the case sheet, I found that they had an actual arm, and the nerves supplying the arm had been cut, and the actual arm had been paralyzed, and lying in a sling for several months before the amputation, and this pain then gets carried over into the phantom itself.