lytico

/ˈlɪt.ɪ.koʊ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"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."
"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."

Short for paralytico, apparently from Spanish paralítico.

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How do you pronounce lytico?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈlɪt.ɪ.koʊ/.

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Where does lytico come from?

It is traced to Spanish.

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