(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.
Paraplegia
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Paraplegy
Example Sentences:
(1) All of the nude mice developed paraplegia with or without incontinence at 2 weeks and routinely died of inanition 3 weeks postimplantation.
(2) In patients with spastic paraplegia presenting with recurrent dislocation of the hip, operative treatment combining a soft tissue repair and a bone block to augment the acetabulum is recommended.
(3) Two of the patients showed an elevation of the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) protein before development of paraplegia; one also showed a rise in myelin basic protein associated with his myelopathy.
(4) In both conditions about half the number of cases presented clinically before the age of 3 months, when paraplegia was evident in only 5 of the 26 infants with tethered cord and 3 of the 25 with tethered roots.
(5) The experience with these patients and a critical review of the literature indicate that the use of extracorporeal circulation and avoidance of hypoxia and hypercapnia may decrease the probability of paraplegia.
(6) An incomplete transverse lesion of the cord with paraplegia was found in 61.7 per cent, a complete paralysis in 14.3 per cent of the cases.
(7) In contrast no dog in Group IV developed paraplegia.
(8) The main causes are Potts Disease, arachnoiditis, tropical spastic paraplegia, trauma, lathyrism and cord compression.
(9) There was one definitive neurological complication leading to the death of one patient at 4 months and one totally regressive paraplegia at the 2nd month with the patient recovering independent walking function.
(10) This observation relates a case of spinal arachnoiditis with paraplegia, for a 56 year old patient hospitalized for a S.A.H.
(11) Four of nine dogs in group 5 had complete paraplegia, three dogs showed varying degrees of recovery, and two dogs had no neurologic deficit.
(12) The incidence of renal dysfunction (7.4%) or paraplegia (2.1%) was not related to aortic cross-clamp time, and both were markedly decreased to 3.8% and 0.0%, respectively, when the cases of thoracoabdominal aneurysms were excluded.
(13) Spanking, in the last case, was the cause of an important luxation of T12-L1, at first with a complete paraplegia, and was associated with the fact that the child was only seen a few days after by a doctor and immediately referred.
(14) 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.
(15) The loss of physical unctions is comparable to that in the case of paraplegia.
(16) Progressive neurological deficits were detected in 18 of 20 animals; severe paraparesis or paraplegia occurred in 75%, and sphincter dysfunction occurred in 55%.
(17) One-third of the infants with neuroblastoma presented with paraplegia and one-third with respiratory symptoms including wheeze, stridor and respiratory difficulty.
(18) After a severe polytraumatism, a 14 year-old boy presents paraplegia without vertebral lesion.
(19) The pathogenesis of the relapsing and remitting paraplegia and its relationship with pregnancy is probably multi-factorial.
(20) A 57-year-old man with clinical symptoms of dementia and spastic paraplegia revealed pathologically scattered cerebral arteriosclerotic changes and diffuse myelin destruction in the basis pontis.