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hemiplegy

hemiplegy is the dated form of hemiplegia.

Meaning of hemiplegia

Noun

hemiplegia (usually uncountable, plural hemiplegias)

  1. (usually) 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

Questions about hemiplegy

What is hemiplegy the dated form of?
Hemiplegy is the dated form of hemiplegia.

Words near hemiplegy in the dictionary

  1. hemiplasy
  2. hemiplegia
  3. hemiplegias
  4. hemiplegic
  5. hemiplegics
  6. hemiplegy
  7. hemipneustic
  8. hemipode
  9. hemipodes
  10. hemipons
  11. hemipontes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hemiplegy (page history and authors); hemiplegia (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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