Flaccid \Flac"cid\, a. [L. flaccidus, fr. flaccus flabby: cf.
OF. flaccide.]
Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft
and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid
muscle; flaccid flesh.

Religious profession . . . has become flacced. --I.
Taylor.
-- Flac"cid*ly, adv. -- Flac"cid*ness, n.

Fifty years ago, flaccid paralysis was all to commonly
caused by poliomyelitis.