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hemiplegia

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Noun
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hem=i=ple=gi=a

CIDE DICTIONARY

hemiplegian. [NL., fr. Gr. ; half + a stroke; cf. F. hémiplagie.].
     A palsy that affects one side only of the body.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hemiplegia, n. Med. paralysis of one side of the body.

Derivative
hemiplegic n. & adj.
Etymology
mod.L f. Gk hemiplegia paralysis (as HEMI-, plege stroke)

ROGET THESAURUS

hemiplegia

Physical Insensibility

N insensibility, physical insensibility, obtuseness, palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia, anaesthesia, sleep, hemiplegia, motor paralysis, vegetable state, coma, anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral, nitrous oxide, laughing gas, exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen, refrigeration, insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick- skinned, pachydermatous, hard, hardened, case hardened, proof, obtuse, dull, anaesthetic, comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.


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