lytico

English

Etymology

Short for paralytico, apparently from Spanish paralítico.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪt.ɪ.koʊ/

Noun

lytico (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A medical condition prevalent on Guam, or an aspect of Lytico-Bodig disease, which causes paralysis.
   • 2011 March 10, Carlo Colosimo, David E. Riley, Gregor K. Wenning, Handbook of Atypical Parkinsonism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 108:

     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 June 30, Robert F. Rogers, Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam, Revised Edition, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 208:

     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.