What's the difference between monoplegia and paraplegia?

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).

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.

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