Lytico
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈlɪt.ɪ.koʊ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lytico is a noun meaning (medicine) A medical condition prevalent on Guam, or an aspect of Lytico-Bodig disease, which causes paralysis.
Meaning
(medicine) A medical condition prevalent on Guam, or an aspect of Lytico-Bodig disease, which causes paralysis.
Example Sentences
Often lumped with lytico owing to clinical, familial, and pathological associations, is the parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam (PDCG), known locally as bodig; 40% of patients with bodig also have lytico.
The naval physicians renamed the bodig aspect of the disease, in which the spinal cord and brain are attacked, parkinsonism-dementia complex. In ALS, the lytico aspect, a sound brain is imprisoned in a paralyzed body.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include paralytic, antiparalytic, lanatigoside, luzonicoside, longicaudoside, lanagitoside.
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