Usually means: Paralysis affecting symmetrical body parts.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. diplegia: Merriam-Webster
  2. diplegia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diplegia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diplegia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diplegia: Vocabulary.com
  6. diplegia: Wordnik
  7. diplegia: Wiktionary
  8. diplegia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. diplegia: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. diplegia: Dictionary.com
  11. Diplegia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. diplegia: Rhymezone
  13. diplegia: FreeDictionary.org
  14. diplegia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. diplegia: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. diplegia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. diplegia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Diplegia: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. diplegia: Medical dictionary
  7. Diplegia: Brain Injury

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Definitions from Wiktionary (diplegia)

▸ noun:  (medicine) Paralysis that affects symmetrically opposed parts of the body.

Similar:
diplegic, quadriplegia, tetraparalysis, alternating hemiplegia, monoplegic, contralateral, diplopodia, tetraplegic, diplopy, diplogenesis, more...

Opposite:
hemiplegia, paraplegia, quadriplegia, monoplegia

Types:
spastic, flaccid, more...

Phrases:
Spastic diplegia, facial diplegia, diplegia paralysis, congenital facial diplegia, more...

Adjectives:
spastic, facial, cerebral, congenital, ataxic, atonic, mild, severe, infantile, progressive, cerebellar

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Similar:
diplegic, quadriplegia, tetraparalysis, alternating hemiplegia, monoplegic, contralateral, diplopodia, tetraplegic, diplopy, diplogenesis, more...

Opposite:
hemiplegia, paraplegia, quadriplegia, monoplegia

Types:
spastic, flaccid, more...

Phrases:
Spastic diplegia, facial diplegia, diplegia paralysis, congenital facial diplegia, more...

Adjectives:
spastic, facial, cerebral, congenital, ataxic, atonic, mild, severe, infantile, progressive, cerebellar



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