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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Bell's palsy /ˈbɛlz-/

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 Bell's palsy 名詞

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pal·sy n.; pl. Palsies   Med. Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis. “One sick of the palsy.”
 Bell's palsy, paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it.
 Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer.
 Shaking palsy, Med. paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait; now called parkinsonism, or Parkinson's disease.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bell's palsy. Paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face.