hemiplegia

• hemiplegy (dated)

From New Latin hemiplegia, from Ancient Greek ἡμιπλήξ (hēmiplḗx), also ἡμιπληγής (hēmiplēgḗs, “stricken on one side”), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “half”) + πλήσσω (plḗssō, “to strike”). By surface analysis, hemi- +‎ -plegia.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌhem.ɪˈpliː.dʒ(i.)ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌhem.ɪˈpli.dʒə/

hemiplegia (usually uncountable, plural hemiplegias)

1. Total or partial inability to move one side of the body.
   • 1904, James Joyce, letter to C. P. Curran, August 1904

     I call the series Dubliners to betray the soul of that hemiplegia or paralysis which many consider a city.

• “hemiplegia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “hemiplegia”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “hemiplegia”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Internationalism (see English hemiplegia).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhemiˌpleɡiɑ/, [ˈhe̞miˌple̞ɡiɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -eɡiɑ
• Syllabification^(key): he‧mi‧ple‧gi‧a, he‧mip‧le‧gi‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): hemi‧plegia, he‧mip‧le‧gia

hemiplegia

1. (pathology) hemiplegia

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