different between poliomyelitis vs paraplegia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Poliomyelitis, from the Ancient Greek ?????? (poliós, “grey”) +? ?????? (muelós, “marrow”) +? -???? (-îtis, “-itis”). Compare French poliomyélite.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: p?'l??m??l??t?s, p?'l??m??l??t?s, IPA^(key): /?p?l???ma???la?t?s/, /?p??l???ma???la?t?s/

Noun

poliomyelitis (countable and uncountable, plural poliomyelitides)

1. (pathology) Acute infection by the poliovirus, especially of the motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes deformity.

   Synonyms: infantile paralysis, polio

Translations

Further reading

• poliomyelitis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From New Latin paraplegia, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (parapl?gí?), Ionic Greek for ?????????? (parapl?xía, “paralysis on one side”), from ?????????????? (parapl?ssesthai, “to be stricken on one side”), active ???????????? (parapl?ssein, “to strike on one side”), from ???? (pará, “beside”) + ???????? (pl?ssein, “to strike”).

Noun

paraplegia (countable and uncountable, plural paraplegias)

1. (pathology) A condition where the lower half of a patient's body is paralyzed and cannot move.

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

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

Esperanto

Etymology

From paraplegio (“paraplegia”) +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paraple??ia/
• Hyphenation: pa?ra?ple?gi?a
• Rhymes: -ia

Adjective

paraplegia (accusative singular paraplegian, plural paraplegiaj, accusative plural paraplegiajn)

1. of or related to paraplegia, paraplegic
2. (of a, person) having paraplegia, paraplegic

Related terms

• paraplegiulo (“someone with paraplegia, a paraplegic”)

Interlingua

Noun

paraplegia (uncountable)

1. paraplegia

Italian

Noun

paraplegia f (plural paraplegie)

1. (pathology) paraplegia

Derived terms

• paraplegico

Portuguese

Noun

paraplegia f (plural paraplegias)

1. (pathology) paraplegia (condition of being paralysed from the waist down)

Derived terms

• paraplégico