hemiplegia
UK/ˌhem.ɪˈpliː.dʒ(i.)ə/US/ˌhem.ɪˈpli.dʒə/
hemiplegia noun: total or partial inability to move one side of the body.
Noun
hemiplegia (usually uncountable, plural hemiplegias)
- Total or partial inability to move one side of the body.
- I call the series Dubliners to betray the soul of that hemiplegia or paralysis which many consider a city.1904, James Joyce, letter to C. P. Curran, August 1904
- As you doubtlessly also can read from the paper you pilfered from my bag, hemiplegia, a medical term known to the layman as paralysis resulting from a blood clot in the brain.1932, Jules Furthman, Shanghai Express, spoken by Harvey (Clive Brook)
hemiplegia meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Indonesian
hemiplegia in Hindi
- total or partial inability to move one side of the body
- अर्धांघात ardhāṅghāt, अर्धांग ardhāṅg
hemiplegia in Tamil
- ஒரு பக்க வாதம், பக்கவாதம், பாதி உடல் வாதம்
hemiplegia in Indonesian
- total or partial inability to move one side of the body
- hemiplegia
Forms of hemiplegia
| plural | hemiplegias |
|---|---|
| alternative form (dated) | hemiplegy |
Origin of hemiplegia
From New Latin hemiplegia, from Ancient Greek ἡμιπλήξ (hēmiplḗx), also ἡμιπληγής (hēmiplēgḗs, “stricken on one side”), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “half”) + πλήσσω (plḗssō, “to strike”). By surface analysis, hemi- + -plegia.
Words formed from hemiplegia
- alternating hemiplegia
- Brown-Séquard's hemiplegia
- cerebral hemiplegia
- double hemiplegia
- facial hemiplegia
- spastic hemiplegia
Questions about hemiplegia
- What does hemiplegia mean?
- Hemiplegia means total or partial inability to move one side of the body.
- What is hemiplegia in Hindi?
- Hemiplegia in Hindi is अर्धांघात (ardhāṅghāt), अर्धांग (ardhāṅg). See Hemiplegia meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is hemiplegia?
- Hemiplegia is a noun.
- How do you pronounce hemiplegia?
- Hemiplegia is pronounced /ˌhem.ɪˈpliː.dʒ(i.)ə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of hemiplegia?
- The plural of hemiplegia is hemiplegias.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hemiplegia (page history and authors); hemiplegia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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