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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.
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Dr Bill, do you use the modern /'flasId/ pronunciation or the older /'flaksId/ one.
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I learned it as "flass-id," in the phrase "flaccid paralysis." Not a very pleasant image and therefore impossible to forget.
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