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n. Complete paralysis of the lower half of the body including both legs, usually caused by damage to the spinal cord.

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

n. Palsy of the lower half of the body on both sides, caused usually by disease of the spinal cord.

n. Paralysis of both lower limbs with more or less of the trunk.

n. paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma)

"Following trial, the jury awarded the 45-year-old plaintiff, who was impaled by a steel bar from the scrotum to L2 on his spinal cord, resulting in paraplegia and associated complications, $5 million for past pain and suffering, $10 million for future pain and suffering over 35 years, and $8,295,000 for future medical expenses."

paraplegy   

paralysis    palsy   

hypertrophic paraplegia of infancy    spastic paraplegia    congenital spastic paraplegia    reflex paraplegia    paraplegia dolorosa   

paraplegic    quadriplegia    hemiplegia   

hemiplegia   

macrosomia    ophthalmoplegia    salpingitis    atelectasis    restenosis