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Definition of Hemiplegia
1. Noun. Paralysis of one side of the body.
Definition of Hemiplegia
1. n. A palsy that affects one side only of the body.
Definition of Hemiplegia
1. Noun. Total or partial inability to move one side of the body. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hemiplegia
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Medical Definition of Hemiplegia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemiplegia
Literary usage of Hemiplegia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1900)
"This is a very careful study of hemiplegia following head injuries. ... The paper
presents a careful analysis of forty-seven cases of traumatic hemiplegia, ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... In intra-uterine or in early extra-uterine life various lesions occur, which
may give rise to hemiplegia, diplegia, arrested development, etc. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"Three Cases of hemiplegia, caused by the blocking-up of a Cerebral Artery. ...
The three cases of hemiplegia now related prove the same fact. ..."
4. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1895)
"I. hemiplegia. Etiology.—Of 135 cases, comprising those from the Infirmary for
Diseases of the Nervous System, Philadelphia, from the Elwyn Institution for ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1901)
"This is a very careful study of hemiplegia following head injuries. The following
abstract aims only to mention some of the general facts deduced from this ..."
6. The Pathology and treatment of venereal diseases: Including the Results of by Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1870)
"hemiplegia.—Syphilitic hemiplegia is usually a late symptom occurring several
... A few instances are recorded in which hemiplegia has occurred at a much ..."
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