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Paraparesis vs Hemiplegia - What's the difference?

paraparesis | hemiplegia |

As nouns the difference between paraparesis and hemiplegia

is that paraparesis is weakness of both legs, resulting from disease of the nervous system while hemiplegia is total or partial inability to move one side of the body.

paraparesis

English

Noun

(-)
  • weakness of both legs, resulting from disease of the nervous system.

    • hemiplegia

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Total or partial inability to move one side of the body.
    • I call the series Dubliners to betray the soul of that hemiplegia or paralysis which many consider a city. - James Joyce, August 1904

    Derived terms

    * cerebral hemiplegia * facial hemiplegia * spastic hemiplegia

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