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What does hemiplegia mean?

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Noun
  1. Total or partial inability to move one side of the body.
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Its indications include pain in the lower back and hip region, muscular atrophy, sciatica, pain, weakness and muscular atrophy of the lower extremities, and hemiplegia.
About three years ago, she suffered a stroke that resulted in complete left-sided hemiplegia.
Tumors in the hemispheres had, as general symptoms, headache, dizziness, formication and deafness, epileptic attacks, hemiplegia, convulsions, sopor and troubled mobility of the eye.
Should the thrombus be on the carotid arteries, hemiplegia may result from cerebral embolism.
There can also be hemiplegia, affecting one half of the body, or monoplegia, affecting one limb.
A 6-year-old girl, suffering from upper and lower limb hemiplegia on her right side, could no longer speak.

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