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Definition: Paraplegia |
ParaplegiaNoun1. Paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Severe or complete loss of motor function in the lower extremities and lower portions of the trunk. This condition is most often associated with spinal cord diseases, although brain diseases; peripheral nervous system diseases; neuromuscular diseases; and muscular diseases may also cause bilateral leg weakness. (references) |
Medicine | Paralysis of both lower extremities and, generally, the lower trunk; may arise as a result of severe injury to the back caused by work accidents. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Paraplegia |
| English words defined with "paraplegia": paraplegic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Paraplegia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (paraplegia), Portuguese (paraplegia, parapsychology). |
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Health | In some cases, progressive paraplegia may occur. (references) | |
Paraparesis often progresses to paraplegia (paralysis of the legs and lower part of the trunk). (references) | ||
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), also called familial spastic paralysis, refers to a group of genetic disorders that are characterized by progressive weakness and spasticity (stiffness) of the legs. Symptoms of HSP may occur alone or, in more complicated forms of HSP, may occur in combination with a number of other neurological symptoms. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Paraplegia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Paraplegia" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
paraplegia | 82 |
spastic paraplegia | 24 |
hereditary spastic paraplegia | 11 |
news paraplegia | 4 |
paraplegia sexuality | 4 |
familial spastic paraplegia | 3 |
incomplete paraplegia | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "paraplegia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | paraplegji. (various references) | |
Arabic | كسح (palsy, paralysis, sweep), شلل النصف السفلي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | параплегия. (various references) | |
Czech | paraplegie. (various references) | |
Danish | paraplegi (diplegia of lower limbs). (various references) | |
Dutch | paraplegie (diplegia of lower limbs). (various references) | |
Finnish | Pottin tauti (Pott's disease, Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), tuberkuloottinen spondyliitti (Pott's disease, Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis), selkärankatuberkuloosi (Pott's disease, Pott's paraplegia, tuberculous spondylitis). (various references) | |
French | paraplégie. (various references) | |
German | Querschnittslähmung, Paraplegie. (various references) | |
Greek | παραπληγία. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kétoldali végtagbénulás. (various references) | |
Italian | paraplegia. (various references) | |
Manx | neulheiltys (palsy, paralysis). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | araplegiapay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | paraplegia (parapsychology). (various references) | |
Romanian | paraplegie. (various references) | |
Russian | параплегия. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | paraplegija. (various references) | |
Spanish | paraplejia, paraplejía. (various references) | |
Swedish | paraplegi, dubbelsidig förlamning. (various references) | |
Turkish | parapleji, yarım felç (hemiplegia), belden aşağı felç. (various references) | |
Ukranian | параплегія. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "paraplegia": paraplegias. (additional references) | |
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"Paraplegia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paraplegiac, paraplegiv, praplegia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "paraplegia" (pronounced pe'ruplē"jēu) |
| 7 | -u p l ē" j ē u | hemiplegia. |
| 3 | -j ē u | gametangia. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-g-i-l-p-p-r" | |
-3 letters: apparel, applier, gappier, grapple, gripple, regalia. | |
-4 letters: aerial, agapae, agapai, aglare, alegar, appeal, appear, argala, argali, earlap, gipper, glaire, grappa, grippe, laager, lapper, lipper, palier, pipage, rappel, realia, ripple. | |
-5 letters: agape, agile, agria, algae, appal, appel, apple, areal, argal, argil, argle, ariel, galea, gaper, glair, glare, graal, grail, grape, gripe, laari, lager, large, liger, pager, palea, paler, palpi, papal, paper, parae, parge, parle, pearl, pepla, peril, pilar, pilea, pipal, piper, plage, plier, regal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-e-g-i-l-p-p-r" | |
+1 letter: paraplegias. | |
+4 letters: paleographical. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 72 61 70 6C 65 67 69 61 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. .- .--. .-.. . --. .. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01100001 01110000 01101100 01100101 01100111 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r a p l e g i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 0061 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)50678467827871737567 |
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