noun
definition
A condition where the lower half of a patient's body is paralyzed and cannot move.
Examples of paraplegia in a Sentence
Lower lesions, causing paraplegia, are less likely to affect breathing.
We are using FES assisted cycling to study possible mechanisms of motor and sensory recovery in incomplete paraplegia.
Paraplegia from injecting phenol into the arteries that supply the spinal cord (prevented by checking the needle position with radio-opaque dye ).
Baldwin, who suffers from spastic paraplegia and needs crutches to walk, did not have to pay any more.
Dieticians normally decrease the amount of calories by 5 percent for those with paraplegia and 10 to 15 percent for those with tetraplegia (quadriplegia).
Indeed, it does not seem to have occurred to any one to compare the muscular strength in the various kinds of paraplegia.
Baldwin, 53, suffers from spastic paraplegia, uses crutches, and says using cannabis helped to combat debilitating leg spasms.
Degenerative diseases of the human motor system studied at Sheffield include motor neuron disease (MND) and hereditary spastic paraplegia.
The two authors ' accounts of traumatic paraplegia are both quite detailed, although emphasizing different aspects of the condition.