paraplegia

Pathol paralysis of the lower half of the body, usually as the result of disease or injury of the spine

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paraplegia

[‚par·ə′plē·jə]

(medicine)

Paralysis of the lower limbs.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Paraplegia

paralysis of both lower or both upper limbs. It arises as a result of organic lesions of the nervous system (organic paraplegia); sometimes it results from psychogenic disturbances, as in paraplegia from hysteria.

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