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FLACCID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flaccid mean?
• FLACCID (adjective)
The adjective FLACCID has 2 senses:
1. drooping without elasticity; wanting in stiffness
2. out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance
Familiarity information: FLACCID used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Drooping without elasticity; wanting in stiffness
Context example:
a flaccid penis
Similar:
soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance
Synonyms:
Context example:
flaccid cheeks
Similar:
unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition)
Derivation:
flaccidity (a flabby softness)
Context examples
Soon the flaccid organ began to slowly expand and show such a tendency to upward movements that Challenger fastened the cords which held it to the trunks of the surrounding trees.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This results in flaccid paralysis of worm musculature allowing the worm to become dislodged by peristalsis and expelled from the body.
(Piperazine Citrate, NCI Thesaurus)
A component of the Apgar score, it is the numerical value assigned to an assessment of the residual muscle tension of a neonate. 0 = flaccid; 1 = flexion of extremities; 2 = active motion.
(Muscle Tone Score, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by episodes of muscle paralysis in which the affected muscles become flaccid and the deep tendon reflexes disappear.
(Familial Periodic Paralysis, NCI Thesaurus)
A new study analyzing samples from patients with and without acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) provides additional evidence for an association between the rare but often serious condition that causes muscle weakness and paralysis, and infection with non-polio enteroviruses.
(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)
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