types of paralysis
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myoparesis
is a weakness or slight muscular paralysis
Quadriplegia
is paralysis of four extremities
hemiparesis
is slight paralysis or weakness affecting one side of body.
paralysis
is the loss of sensation and voluntary muscle movements in a muscle through diseas or injury to its nerve supply
paraplegia
is the paralysis of both legs and the lower part of the body
hemiplegia
is totaly paralysis affecting only one side of the body
paraplegia
known as a paraplegic
hemiplegia
known as hemiplegic
quadriplegia
known as quadriplegic.
quadr/i
means four
hemi-
means half
-paresis
means partial or incomplete paralysis
-plegia
paralysis
paralyses
paralysis plural is