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‖ paraplegia Path.|pærəˈpliːdʒɪə|
[mod.L., a. Gr. παραπληγία = παραπληξία a stroke on one side, hemiplegia, f. παραπλήσσ-ειν to strike at the side, f. παρα- beside, aside + πλήσσειν to strike.]
Paralysis of the lower limbs and a part or the whole of the trunk, resulting from an affection of some part of the spinal cord.
1657Physical Dict., Paraplegia, the same with paralysis. 1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Paraplegia, a Palsy which seizeth all the parts of the Body below the Head. 1802Eng. Encycl. VI. 9/1 When it [palsy] happens to all the parts below the head, or to the lower half of the body, it is called paraplegia. 1869Geo. Eliot in Cross Life III. 102 He had an attack of paraplegia. |
