Regardless of the cause, the result was that Roosevelt was totally and permanently paralyzed from the waist down.

These are the existential questions of journalism: profoundly important and totally paralyzing if you think about them for too long.

He regained consciousness slowly, and found himself totally paralyzed.

Half my face became totally paralyzed when I was 13 years old.

Without actually being in ill health, one day he became totally paralyzed.

With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.

Rehod screamed out loud and stiffened, for a moment totally paralyzed by the pain.

At age fourteen, he contracted polio and became totally paralyzed from the waist down.

Eighteen months earlier, I became totally paralyzed after breaking my neck in a high-school wrestling class.

It totally paralyzed for a long period, depending on the victim's size and weight, and too much of it could kill.