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Examples of paraplegia
paraplegia
Paraplegia is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities.
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Mutations in this gene cause the most common form of hereditary spastic paraplegia.
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Vergeer developed paraplegia when she was eight years old, following spinal surgery.
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Complications of aortic surgery include stroke, paraplegia and peripheral nerve dysfunction.
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This is the case in Friedreich's ataxia, hereditary spastic paraplegia, and Wilson's disease.
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Spastic paraplegia type 2 associated with axonal neuropathy and apparent PLP1 position effect.
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Guttmann's first encounter with paraplegia was a young coalminer with a fracture of the spine.
From the guardian.co.uk
Roberts, injured in a 1983 shooting, has paraplegia and has lived in the one-story home since March.
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Borgens and Shi plan to conduct clinical trials in natural cases of paraplegia in dogs sometime this year.
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- Paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma)
- (paraplegic) a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down)
- Paraplegia is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities. The word comes from Ionic Greek: u03C0u03B1u03C1u03B1u03C0u03BBu03B7u03B3u03AFu03B7 "half-striking". It is usually caused by spinal cord injury or a congenital condition such as spina bifida that affects the neural elements of the spinal canal. The area of the spinal canal that is affected in paraplegia is either the thoracic, lumbar, or sacral regions...
- A condition where the lower half of a patient's body is paralyzed and cannot move
- (paraplegic) WAIST-DOWN FREEZE, where the first sign is (2h)[B], POs down, are held at waist with DH below NDH and DH moves down to show "from the waist down".
- (paraplegic) a person paralyzed in the legs, and sometimes pelvic areas, as the result of injury to the spinal cord.
- Loss of movement and sensation in both legs.
- Paralysis of the legs (from the waist down).
- Refers to partial or complete paralysis of all or part of the trunk and both lower extremities from lesions of the thoracic or lumbar spinal cord or sacral roots.
