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Definition of Diplegia
1. Noun. Paralysis of corresponding parts on both sides of the body.
Definition of Diplegia
1. Noun. (medicine) Paralysis that affects symmetrically opposed parts of the body. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diplegia
1. paralysis of the same part on both sides of the body [n -S] : DIPLEGIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Diplegia
1. Paralysis of corresponding parts on both sides of the body. Synonym: double hemiplegia. Origin: G. Di-, two, + plege, a stroke (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diplegia
Literary usage of Diplegia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... and often with imbecility, or epilepsy). Hemi-athe- tosis, hemichorea, and
speech disturbances are common. The patients with diplegia show marked ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1903)
"... and while in peripheral facial diplegia both sides of the face may be attacked
simultaneously, in the labio-glosso- pharyngeal paralysis the lips suffer ..."
3. Diseases of the nervous system: For the General Practitioner and Student by Alfred Gordon (1913)
"B. Spastic diplegia. Little's Disease. In the chapter on Pathology one could see
the various morbid congenital conditions which ..."
4. Paralysis and other diseases of the nervous system in childhood and early life by James Taylor (1905)
"The nature of the lesion in cerebral diplegia explains the occurrence of almost
every transitional form between the clinical types of the disease as ..."
5. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1908)
"... Cerebral diplegia, with very pronounced spastic may be general. Both forms hands.
The mother presented the same clinical picture. may alternate in the ..."
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