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paraplegia

paraplegia

English

Noun

paraplegia ‎(countable and uncountable, plural paraplegias)

(pathology) A condition where the lower half of a patient's body is paralyzed and cannot move.

Related terms

Translations

paralysed condition

Catalan: paraplegia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 截癱 (zh), 截瘫 (zh) ‎(jiétān)
Czech: paraplegie f
Dutch: dwarslaesie
Esperanto: paraplegio
Finnish: parapleic
French: paraplégie (fr)
German: Querschnittslähmung (de) f
Greek: παραπληγία (el) ‎(parapligía)
Icelandic: þverlömun (is) f, lömun fyrir neðan mitti f
Italian: paraplegia (it)

Japanese: 対まひ ‎(ついまひ, tsuimahi)
Korean: 하반신 불수 ‎(habansin bulsu)
Latin: paraplegia
Portuguese: paraplegia (pt) f
Russian: параплеги́я (ru) f ‎(paraplegíja)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: параплѐгија f

Roman: paraplègija (sh) f
Spanish: paraplejia (es) f
Swedish: paraplegi c
Tagalog: parapleya

Esperanto

Adjective

paraplegia ‎(accusative singular paraplegian, plural paraplegiaj, accusative plural paraplegiajn)

of or related to paraplegia, paraplegic
(of a person) having paraplegia, paraplegic

Related terms

paraplegio ‎(“paraplegia”)
paraplegiulo ‎(“someone with paraplegia, a paraplegic”)

Italian

Noun

paraplegia f ‎(plural paraplegie)

(pathology) paraplegia

Derived terms

paraplegico

Portuguese

Noun

paraplegia f (plural paraplegias)

(pathology) paraplegia (condition of being paralysed from the waist down)