Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Hemiplegic |
HemiplegicNoun1. A person who has hemiplegia (is paralyzed on one side of the body). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hemiplegic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Patients with hemiplegic migraine have temporary paralysis on one side of the body, a condition known as hemiplegia. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Hemiplegic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hemiplegic" is used about 72 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 72 | 39,377 |
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 |
hemiplegic migraines | 17 |
hemiplegic migraine | 14 |
hemiplegic | 11 |
hand hemiplegic | 5 |
hemiplegic means | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hemiplegic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مفلوج. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | hemiplegisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hemiplegisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hemipleginen migreeni (hemiplegic migraine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | hémiplégique (hemiplegia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | hemiplegisch, halbseitig gelähmt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ημιπληγικός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | emiplegico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emiplegichay hemiplégico. (various references) hemipléjico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hemiplegic": hemiplegics. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-h-i-i-l-m-p" | |
-3 letters: epigeic, megilph, milchig. | |
-4 letters: hempie, imphee, lichee, megilp, phlegm. | |
-5 letters: cheep, chiel, chile, chili, chime, chimp, clepe, clime, elemi, gimel, glime, hemic, impel, leech, lichi, liege, melic, miche, milch, piece, pilei. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-g-h-i-i-l-m-p" | |
+1 letter: hemiplegics. | |
| 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)48 65 6D 69 70 6C 65 67 69 63 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references).... . -- .. .--. .-.. . --. .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01101101 01101001 01110000 01101100 01100101 01100111 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e m i p l e g i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 006D 0069 0070 006C 0065 0067 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42717975827871737569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
