hemiplegia
hemiplegia is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A palsy that affects one side only of the body. -- Hem`i"pleg"ic, a.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agent
- anaesthesia
- anaesthetic
- anaesthetize
- benumb
- blunt
- callous
- case
- chloral
- chloroform
- coma
- comatose
- dead
- dull
- ether
- exhilarating
- gas
- hard
- hardened
- have
- hide
- impercipient
- influence
- insensibility
- insensible
- laughing
- motor
- nitrogen
- nitrous
- numb
- obtund
- obtuse
- obtuseness
- opium
- oxide
- pachydermatous
- pall
- palsied
- palsy
- paralysis
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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