hemiplegia

English

Alternative forms

• hemiplegy (dated)

Etymology

From New Latin hemiplegia, from Ancient Greek ἡμιπλήξ (hēmiplḗx), also ἡμιπληγής (hēmiplēgḗs, “stricken on one side”), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “half”) + πλήσσω (plḗssō, “to strike”).

Noun

hemiplegia (usually uncountable, plural hemiplegias)

1. Total or partial inability to move one side of the body.
   • 1904, James Joyce, letter to C. P. Curran, August 1904

     I call the series Dubliners to betray the soul of that hemiplegia or paralysis which many consider a city.

Derived terms

• alternating hemiplegia
• cerebral hemiplegia
• double hemiplegia
• facial hemiplegia
• spastic hemiplegia

 

Translations

total or partial inability to move one side of the body

• Catalan: hemiplegia f
• Czech: hemiplegie f
• Dutch: hemiplegie (nl) f
• Finnish: toispuolihalvaus
• German: halbseitige Lähmung f
• Greek: ημιπληγία (el) f (imipligía)
• Icelandic: helftarlömun f, lömun öðrum megin í líkamanum f
• Spanish: hemiplejia (es) f
• Swedish: halvsidesförlamning c

Further reading

• “hemiplegia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “hemiplegia”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “hemiplegia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.