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lytico en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈlɪt.ɪ.koʊ/

Etymology

Short for paralytico, apparently from Spanish paralítico.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A medical condition prevalent on Guam, or an aspect of Lytico-Bodig disease, which causes paralysis.
    • 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. 2011 March 10, Carlo Colosimo, David E. Riley, Gregor K. Wenning, Handbook of Atypical Parkinsonism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 108:
    • 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. 2011 June 30, Robert F. Rogers, Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam, Revised Edition, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 208: