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Definition: Hemiplegia |
HemiplegiaNoun1. Paralysis of one side of the body. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
European Union | Paralysis of one lateral half of the body or part of it resulting from injury to the motor centres of the brain. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Severe or complete loss of motor function on one side of the body. This condition is usually caused by BRAIN DISEASES that are localized to the cerebral hemisphere opposite to the side of weakness. Less frequently, BRAIN STEM lesions; cervical spinal cord diseases; peripheral nervous system diseases; and other conditions may manifest as hemiplegia. The term hemiparesis (see paresis) refers to mild to moderate weakness involving one side of the body. (references) |
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Synonym: HemiplegiaSynonym: unilateral paralysis (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Physical Insensibility | Noun: insensibility, physical insensibility; obtuseness. Adjective: palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia, anaesthesia; sleep; hemiplegia, motor paralysis; vegetable state; coma. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hemiplegia |
| English words defined with "hemiplegia": hemiplegic, Hemiplegy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hemiplegia": alternans ♦ hemiplegia alternans inferior sive facialis ♦ Raymond syndrome. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Hemiplegia" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (hemiplegia). |
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Health | Children with the benign form of alternating hemiplegia have a good prognosis. (references) | |
A common disability that results from stroke is paralysis on one side of the body, called hemiplegia. (references) | ||
Uncontrollable shaking affecting the limbs on the spastic side of the body in those who have spastic hemiplegia. (references) | ||
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| "Hemiplegia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hemiplegia" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "hemiplegia": hemiplegia alternans inferior sive facialis. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hemiplegia | 76 |
alternating hemiplegia | 8 |
hemiplegia laryngeal | 4 |
adult hemiplegia | 3 |
hemiplegia right | 2 |
hemiplegia spastic | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "hemiplegia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فالج (paralysis), شلل نصفي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hemiplegi (capsular paralysis, hemiplegia of internal capsule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hemiplegie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hémiplégie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Hemiplegie (capsular paralysis, hemiplegia of internal capsule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ημιπληγία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | emiplegia (haemiplegia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emiplegiahay hemiplegia. (various references) hemiplejía. (various references) yarım felç (paraplegia), kısmi felç. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "hemiplegia": hemiplegias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hemiplegia" (pronounced he'muplē"jēu or he'muplē"jyu) |
| 7 | -u p l ē" j ē u | paraplegia. |
| 3 | -j ē u | gametangia. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-h-i-i-l-m-p" | |
-3 letters: epigeal, megilph, mileage. | |
-4 letters: empale, hempie, hiemal, impale, imphee, magilp, magpie, mealie, megilp, milage, pelage, phlegm. | |
-5 letters: agile, aglee, aleph, almeh, ample, eagle, elemi, email, gimel, gleam, glime, hemal, image, impel, laigh, liege, limpa, maile, maple, milia, milpa, peage, phage, phial, pilea, pilei, plage. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-h-i-i-l-m-p" | |
+1 letter: hemiplegias. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 6D 69 70 6C 65 67 69 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . -- .. .--. .-.. . --. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01101101 01101001 01110000 01101100 01100101 01100111 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e m i p l e g i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 006D 0069 0070 006C 0065 0067 0069 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42717975827871737567 |
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