Crossword clues for paraplegia
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paraplegia \Par`a*ple"gi*a\, Paraplegy \Par"a*ple`gy\, n. [NL. paraplegia, fr. Gr. ? hemiplegia, fr. ? to strike at the side; para` beside + ? to strike: cf. F. parapl['e]gie.] (Med.) Palsy of the lower half of the body on both sides, caused usually by disease of the spinal cord. -- Par`a*pleg"ic, a.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) A condition where the lower half of a patient's body is paralyzed and cannot move.
WordNet
n. paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma)
Wikipedia
Paraplegia is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities. The word comes from Ionic Greek: παραπληγίη "half-striking". It is usually caused by spinal cord injury or a congenital condition such as spina bifida that affects the neural elements of the spinal canal. The area of the spinal canal that is affected in paraplegia is either the thoracic, lumbar, or sacral regions. Common victims of this impairment are veterans or members of the armed forces. If four limbs are affected by paralysis, tetraplegia or quadriplegia is the correct term. If only one limb is affected, the correct term is monoplegia.
Spastic paraplegia is a form of paraplegia defined by spasticity of the affected muscles, rather than flaccid paralysis.
Usage examples of "paraplegia".
An Accidental Woman is meant to be neither a manual on paraplegia nor one on maple syrup production.
Virtual Paraplegia, Quadriplegic Bulletin Board, Spinal Cord Injury Information Network, Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Junior sipping chat-room messages or puffing them into the ether.
Mostly they talked big-worded medical nomenclature, things like anterior poliomyelitis and spastic paraplegia due to bilateral cerebral lesion.
Greene is suffering from any disease other than an organic paralysis of both legs-- a paraplegia, in fact, of the entire lower part of the body.
The first time, that is, since the early months of complete paraplegia, when suicide had seemed to Lee a real option.
Privacy is a precious commodity to anyone, but to a woman emerging from paraplegia, it was a gift of life.