HEMIPLEGIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hemiplegia mean? 

• HEMIPLEGIA (noun)
  The noun HEMIPLEGIA has 1 sense:

1. paralysis of one side of the body

  Familiarity information: HEMIPLEGIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEMIPLEGIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Paralysis of one side of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

hemiplegia; unilateral paralysis

Hypernyms ("hemiplegia" is a kind of...):

palsy; paralysis (loss of the ability to move a body part)

 Context examples 

A question about whether an individual has or had hemiplegia.

(Has Hemiplegia, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include lethargy, vomiting, cranial nerve palsy, headache, and hemiplegia.

(Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include dementia, cortical deafness and blindness, pseudobulbar palsy, and hemiplegia.

(Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical signs include dizziness, headache, vomiting, hemiparesis or hemiplegia, dysarthria, dysphagia, blurred vision and loss of consciousness.

(Basilar Artery Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)