Usually means: Paralysis on one body side.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word hemiplegia:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. hemiplegia: Merriam-Webster
  2. hemiplegia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hemiplegia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hemiplegia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hemiplegia: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hemiplegia, hemiplegia: Wordnik
  7. hemiplegia: Wiktionary
  8. hemiplegia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hemiplegia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hemiplegia: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hemiplegia: Dictionary.com
  12. Hemiplegia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Hemiplegia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. hemiplegia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. hemiplegia: Rhymezone
  16. Hemiplegia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. hemiplegia: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hemiplegia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. hemiplegia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hemiplegia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. hemiplegia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hemiplegia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  5. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Hemiplegia: MedFriendly Glossary
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  9. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  10. hemiplegia: Medical dictionary
  11. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  12. Hemiplegia: Brain Injury
  13. Hemiplegia: Drug Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (hemiplegia)

▸ noun:  Total or partial inability to move one side of the body.

Similar:
double hemiplegia, hemiparesis, hemiparesia, haemiparesis, hemiparalysis, hemiparesthesia, hemiparkinsonism, hemiataxia, monoplegia, diparesis, more...

Opposite:
paraplegia, quadriplegia, monoplegia

Types:
left hemiplegia, right hemiplegia, more...

Phrases:
Spastic hemiplegia, contralateral hemiplegia, infantile hemiplegia, alternating hemiplegia, laryngeal hemiplegia, more...

Adjectives:
right, left, spastic, infantile, contralateral, sided, complete, acute, congenital, cerebral, double

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Similar:
double hemiplegia, hemiparesis, hemiparesia, haemiparesis, hemiparalysis, hemiparesthesia, hemiparkinsonism, hemiataxia, monoplegia, diparesis, more...

Opposite:
paraplegia, quadriplegia, monoplegia

Types:
left hemiplegia, right hemiplegia, more...

Phrases:
Spastic hemiplegia, contralateral hemiplegia, infantile hemiplegia, alternating hemiplegia, laryngeal hemiplegia, double hemiplegia, crossed hemiplegia, cerebral hemiplegia, alternate hemiplegia, more...

Adjectives:
right, left, spastic, infantile, contralateral, sided, complete, acute, congenital, cerebral, double



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