(n.) A palsy that affects one side only of the body.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the end of this period, a left hemiplegia occurred.
(2) Patients' ages ranged from 45 to 85 (means 67 years) and the duration of hemiplegia from 1 month to 13 years (means 30.9 months).
(3) decreased the incidence of neurological deficits, such as hemiplegia and convulsion followed by coma and death, for 48 h after ischemia and anoxia.
(4) Hemiplegia and aphasia, when present, usually regressed within a few months.
(5) Similar cerebral infarcts in infants who survive with less severe systemic complications may lead to porencephaly, hemiplegia, mental and motor retardation, and recurrent seizures.
(6) The cause of GANS is unknown, but the hemiplegia following HZO is clearly due to a virus-induced vasculitis spread from the overlying Gasserian nucleus; the history of preceding herpes zoster ophthalmicus strongly suggests the diagnosis.
(7) Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus followed by a controlateral hemiparesis or hemiplegia is a relatively infrequent clinical syndrome.
(8) A 32 year old obese, diabetic and hypertensive woman presented with signs of increasing intracranial pressure: diplopia, partial lateralised Jacksonian seizures followed by alternating post-ictal hemiplegia.
(9) Laryngeal hemiplegia was induced in 4 ponies via a left recurrent laryngeal neurectomy.
(10) In order to study the effect of long-term administration of co-trimoxazole on renal function, creatinine clearance rates were measured in 18 patients with neurogenic hypotonia of the bladder due to paraplegia, quadriplegia, hemiplegia and cerebrocervical injuries.
(11) This study was designed to define a simple, unequivocal test for the evaluation of laryngeal function and the diagnosis of idiopathic laryngeal hemiplegia (ILH).
(12) A persisting neurologic deficit occurred in 10 cases -- visual field defect, 6 cases; hemiplegia, 1; slight weakness, 1; and a sensory deficit, 2.
(13) The main clinical manifestations are disturbance in consciousness, hemiplegia or quadriplegia, and pupillary abnormalitites.
(15) From a semiological point of view, they may be: (i) isolated, (ii) associated with neurological symptoms (ophtalmoplegia, hemiplegia, hemianesthesia...).
(16) Case 2: A 69-year-old man was admitted in semicoma and with right hemiplegia.
(17) No significant associations were detected between laryngeal hemiplegia and any ELA antigen in Thoroughbreds.
(18) Although mirror-writing is well recognized as occurring in the presence of central nervous system damage, and is especially seen in association with hemiplegia, its mechanism has not yet been elucidated.
(19) The hemiplegia remained even though this patient was saved from death.
(20) In this model, neurological deficits such as hemiplegia and decrease of amplitude of electromyographic activity evoked by electrical stimulation of the left sensory motor cortex, were observed on the right legs.
Monoplegia
Definition:
(n.) Paralysis affecting a single limb.
Example Sentences:
(1) Monoparesis (monoplegia) occurs subsequent to unilateral T2-S1 lesions.
(2) Nineteen infants later developed cerebral palsy (two monoplegia of a leg, three hemiplegia, 5 diplegia and 9 quadriplegia).
(3) The histopathologic correlate of this monoplegia is a degeneration of the myelinated motor neurons of the peripheral nerve involved.
(4) She presented monoplegia of the right leg with progression to triplegia (bicrural and left arm) following antihypertensive treatment of a suspected "hypertensive crisis".
(5) Monoparesis (monoplegia) refers to partial (monoparesis) or complete (monoplegia) loss of voluntary motor function in a single limb.
(6) When the dysplasia was unilateral, contralateral spastic hemiplegia or monoplegia was present in 14 of 19 patients (74%), but dysphasia was uncommon, even in patients with dysplasia in the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere.
(7) Immunologically naive, immunosuppressed mice infected with a low-passage clinical HSV-1 isolate developed local site lesions, monoplegia, paraplegia, and died within 8 days.
(8) Repeat Chiari innominate osteotomy in a young woman with traumatic monoplegia and subsequent hypoplasia of the hemipelvis and leg resulted in rotation of the pubic ramus into the vagina, causing obstructive dyspareunia.
(9) The two monoplegias occurred in patients whose bypasses occluded immediately.
(10) One of us suggested in 1962 that these could be the anatomical basis of spastic monoplegia or diplegia (LITTLE's disease).
(11) The 3 women with cardiac valve surgery had case 1) cerebral embolism; case 2) monoplegia and aphasia, and case 3) myocaridal infarction, all during oral contraception after their operations.
(12) The course of the illness was complicated by monoplegia and evidence of bulbar involvement with sensorineural deafness.
(13) Anoxia was consistently the most common etiological factor in those cases of monoplegia paraplegia, quadriplegia, diplegia, and ataxia, i.e.
(14) The patient, a 39-year-old male, presented with sciatalgia and progressive crural monoplegia.
(15) The patient, a 76 year-old woman, who had fallen down by accident 1 month before, was admitted to our hospital presenting lumbar pain radiating into her right thigh, monoplegia of the right leg and urinary incontinence.
(16) A 38-year-old female with acute lymphoblastic leukemia developed monoplegia of the left upper extremity following chemotherapy for remission induction consisting of vincristine, prednisolone, cyclophosphamide, adriamycin and methotrexate.
(17) Neurological examination revealed monoplegia of the left arm with absent DTRs, spastic paraplegia, sensory disturbances below Th 11 level and severe sphincter disturbance.
(18) The postoperative period was uneventful in 14 cases, but in the remaining patients there were 2 transient ischemic attacks, 2 monoplegias and 1 dysphasia (with immediate thrombosis of the bypass in 3 cases).
(19) Sensory disturbances, paraplegias, monoplegias were in low frequency.
(20) Two children (9%) had major disability (one with hemiplegia and one with a lower limb monoplegia) and two further children had minor disabilities (one had partial sightedness and squint, the other squint only).