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hemiplegia

English

Alternative forms

  • hemiplegy (dated)

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ??????? (h?mipl?x), also ????????? (h?mipl?g?s, “stricken on one side”), from ???- (h?mi-, “half”) + ???????? (pl?ssein, “to strike”).

Noun

hemiplegia (usually uncountable, plural hemiplegias)

  1. Total or partial inability to move one side of the body.
    • 1904, James Joyce, letter to C. P. Curran, August 1904
      I call the series Dubliners to betray the soul of that hemiplegia or paralysis which many consider a city.

Derived terms

  • cerebral hemiplegia
  • double hemiplegia
  • facial hemiplegia
  • spastic hemiplegia

Translations

Further reading

  • hemiplegia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • hemiplegia in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • hemiplegia at OneLook Dictionary Search

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paraplegic

English

Etymology

para- +? -plegic

Pronunciation

  • (General American), IPA(key): /?p????plid???k/
  • Rhymes: -i?d??k

Adjective

paraplegic (not comparable)

  1. Of, related to, or suffering from paraplegia.

Translations

Noun

paraplegic (plural paraplegics)

  1. A person who suffers from paraplegia.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French paraplégique

Adjective

paraplegic m or n (feminine singular paraplegic?, masculine plural paraplegici, feminine and neuter plural paraplegice)

  1. paraplegic

Declension

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